Once bitten by a snake...

In Chinese it goes this way:  一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳, translated: a person once bitten by a snake will for ten years shy at a rope.

Sure, I dropped my stone, but it's all still so very sensitive. I flipped, over-reacted, again today.  Oh, it's not just from that long-ago event and related issues, but from another earlier this week that really happened. Today's, was a perception, actually not just perception, but once again, "You did something different from what you said you would do. Can you be trusted at all?"

How do you get over jumping at every little thing that looks like a snake? Is it just a matter of time.  And an ongoing series...of dropping the stone, again, and again. Oh, and apologizing for overreacting...