“I’d just sit there feeling absolutely miserable and horribly guilty,” the actress said.
That, it turns out, wasMelissa Gilbert’s experience as a child onLittle House on the Prairie.
Common examples of such triggers include the sounds of people nearby chewing, swallowing, and/or smacking their lips.
Melissa Gilbert.Stephane Cardinale/Getty
Gilbert underwent weeks of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy so that understand her triggers and learn to withstand them.
“This is an emotional issue.
It’s about self-regulation and self-control,” Gilbert said.
Adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books,Little House on the Prairieran on NBC from 1974-1983.
Gilbert played the character based on Wilder herself.
She continued the role in multiple made-for-TV movie specials after the original show ended.
