What are triggers and how do I know if I have one?

Triggers are situations, actions, or words that causes you to feel an intense emotion. For example, my dad has called me stupid and scolded me for the smallest of mistakes during my childhood, which made me feel incompetent. One time, when I was driving with my mum, she commented that I should be more careful with my driving. It made me extremely angry because her comment made me feel incompetent, and the feeling of being incompetent is my deepest hurt. To see if you might have a trigger, think about a time where something happened to you, or someone said something to you that 'triggered' a deep hurt from your past. If you subsequently felt an intense emotion (which can include anger and anxiety), the thing that happened to you was a trigger.

Triggers can be different for everyone. It can be something you hear, see or feel that makes you think about something specific and triggers a certain response. You know if you have a trigger if you see/hear/feel something that reminds you of something hurtful. For example, you just went through a break-up and you are browsing your Instagram and you see a picture of your ex. This might result in you crying or feeling sad, it can also make you feel angry. Seeing the picture is the trigger of your unpleasant emotions you experience afterwards. I hope this answer helps you to understand more about triggers.

A trigger refers to anything that can remind you of a traumatic experience. It can be a word, an action, an image, an event, a time of day, or any type of stimulus that reminds you of a previously distressing situation. It doesn't have to be frightening or harmful. They're usually specific and related to your personal experience, but they may simply be any small reminder. If you've ever experienced something that caused you to have a flashback or recall your trauma or any particularly distressing memories, then it's likely that you have a trigger. Identifying which experiences and events may be triggering can usually help with avoidance.

Well, it heavily depends on what you're referring to, as in the context of the question. But to give it a very general definition, a trigger would be something that sets off an intense emotional response. These responses can be both rational and irrational and are likely linked to experiences you've had in your past. They are something that you feel very strongly about. Unfortunately, the words trigger has become construed as a lot of people link it to being dramatic. This is not the case and shouldn't be treated as such. The simplest way I'd say to know whether or not you have a trigger is to check for an intense emotional reaction that seems out of place.

A trigger is something that causes you to have a negative reaction or causes you to have negative emotions. A trigger is a term that is used with most mood and personality disorders. How do you know you have a trigger? To understand whether or not you have a trigger, you will have to observe yourself in certain situations. Does something someone says or does, affect you? If yes, then is the reaction positive or negative? If it is negative, do these negative emotions happen every time someone says/does that particular thing? If the answer is a yes, then its most likely that it is a trigger for you. Only after observing yourself for a while under the same situation can you tell if its a trigger. There can be multiple triggers. Triggers differ from person to person. What triggers someone else might not trigger you. Once you identify your trigger, you should start to either work on it, or work on strategies on how to remove yourself from a trigger situation. Hope this helps. You can also text me if you need anything more. Have a nice day :D

A trigger is an involuntary response to a stimuli. It can be literally anything. The response could be a strong feeling, a memory, or a sensation. Triggers are usually associated with trauma or crisis. For example, someone's trigger could be being yelled at, being told no, someone standing too close, or heavy breathing. It pulls us into our flight or fight brain. When I left an abusive relationship, I found out one of my triggers was how my computer monitor was turned off. Sometimes it got me, and sometimes it didn't. It doesn't have to upset you every time in order for it to be a trigger either.

Triggers are things that can make you have a mental breakdown, or a panic attack of some sort. Triggers can be songs, topics of conversations, or plots in movies and books. For example my trigger is character death and anything about mental hospitals. You know if you have a trigger if, when seeing or hearing said trigger, you become overly emotional, get anxious, or your mental issue is heightened or 'triggered'. Triggers can be physical, something you can see, something you can hear, or something you can read. It is best to avoid these triggers as they are things that trigger mental issues.

Hey! Glad you asked the question, basically a trigger is a sort of stimulus that can be a smell, sight or noise that can trigger memories of certain experiences. They might not always be bad triggers, for instance when you smell a certain smell it might remind you of someone cooking or a time you went to to an amusement park with your family or friends. However they can be also be just the opposite, sometimes when things happen to us we try to move on by repressing them, virtually shutting any memory of it out of our heads. A little trick to know if you have triggers or not is to pay attention, if you suddenly start to get nervous or warm or angry pay attention to what made you feel that way. Did someone say something that triggered an uncomfortable feeling? Did you hear something that reminded you of bad or maybe even suppressed memory? If so already being able to identify your triggers is a huge step and puts you on your path to getting better :)

Triggers are things that make us distressed. For example if you had anxiety and you was watching the news and it makes you more anxious that is a trigger as it makes your anxiety worse. So if anything makes something worse for you, and makes you feel more negative then that could be a trigger for you. You find out if you have a trigger when you find out a certain situation or place makes you feel worse than what you normally do. I hope this helps you understand what a trigger can be and how 5o find out whether you have one.

Triggers are better known to be something that will set that person to the event of their original trauma, like a flashback. The trigger can be caused through any of the five senses, from sound, sight, smell, touch and taste. It is different for many people. For example, a survivor of domestic violence might be triggered by a film if that film consists of anything that brings them back to the memories or even of when they were being abused. This can be seeing a couple on screen arguing loudly over something that relates to the viewer and their experience to seeing the actual abuse happening. This then will sometimes cause a negative reaction to the person to where they might not feel very well, break down crying or will go through a loop of those memories for a long period of time. There could be a fight-or-flight response associated. Another example, when it comes to smell, could be that if someone was abused in a room that smelled of coffee, then coffee may trigger that person. Or if they are out with friends who drink alcohol and so did the person that caused the trauma, then the breath of someone - even though it is someone else - can cause that person to get triggered and may cause a flight-or-fight response. If someone says a certain phrase or if they hear a certain song that makes the person have a flashback, that is also a trigger. There is also sometimes a tendency with the survivor to actively avoid these situation, places and people if they know it will trigger them or find ways to safeguard themselves (like in a movie, they might see if that movie contains violence, such as domestic abuse). I hope some of these examples could help you know if you have a trigger.