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

Triggers are factors that motivate you to carry out a certain activity/behavior/action. How to identify a trigger - Be mindful of when your mood or thoughts start to elate. Notice how you're feeling. Ask yourself "What has effected me to feel or think this? " You can also use past instances to think deeply and remember what had happened that made you consider doing a certain activity. To identify trigger of a certain action, be aware. When you're noticing the motivation or urge to do this certain activity, take a step back and ask yourself why you're doing this? What was the moment before this? Was that what made you want to do your? How's it related? I hope it helps. (:🌷

Triggers are the issues that set you off. These can be something as simply as a word to a loud noise. the can bring a grown person to his knees crying, while others can lash out violently. It's such a vast range from a persons own experiences. You may experience triggers by something simple as shortness of breath, to being hospitalized feeling like you are having a heart attack (anxiety) Either way, triggers should never be taken lightly. Simply put, triggers can get the better of us at times, it's how we can cope with dealing with them. When you feel like you are overwelmed by something or feel anxious whether it be from a sound, a taste, a simple photo or a smell. These are just some of the triggers that can set someone off to having anxiety.

I like to think of triggers as brains, because everyone has one. Just like brains, triggers are different for everyone and no one person has the same trigger. Everyone's experiences in life causes different triggers. If one person has been through something in life that causes them to be affected by something, it may have them react a different way then someone else who did not go through this same situation. Your trigger may not be as broad as any other person's trigger. As you grow and learn yourself, you'll find your different triggers throughout your life. These could be good or bad.

Triggers are topics that make you relive old traumas. If you have trauma, the trigger would be anything that re-opens old wounds that have been the source of personal pain. Look inward and trust yourself - you know your story better than anyone. You can think about times in the past where you had a negative, involuntary emotional or physical response to a topic, a conversation, an image, or a reminder of a past experience. If there are topics you know you don't want to discuss, be on the lookout to avoid reminders. It can cast a darkness over you. If you are triggered, you can seek guidance, and it might be a prompt to try to explore a certain unresolved issue in therapy. But keep track of your moods, and if all of a sudden, you feel a surge of negative emotions, think about if there are any patterns as to any triggering stimuli.

Triggers are something in your present that triggers a pain from your past, causing a very strong emotional reaction. You can often realize you've been triggered if you see yourself overreacting to something which is happening. Or if you are being treated (or mistreated) like everyone else, but you are having a much stronger response to it. For instance, your boss is behaving badly and everyone else in the office is mildly annoyed, but you are very, very upset by it. Your boss might be treating you like an abusive past partner, or an abusive parent used to.

Everyone has triggers and often the young are not aware of them or even know they are triggers. When I say young I don't necessarily mean age it can be the age and experiences of their brain. As someone goes through life they gather experiences, traumas, pain, joy and fear. Like a snow ball the more you experience the larger your repository of knowledge grows. It's often seen that young adults those who've experienced a lot of trauma, pain or lack of stability in their life are often more experienced at finding their triggers than someone who's had a more peaceful life and is in their 40s. With a little CBT, talking therapy or just journaling you can reflect and pick out your triggers, after all triggers are just the thorns in our memories. These thorns we experienced in the past often refuse to stay there and will try and prick you again when the situation is right. Take time to explore your memories and find those thorns and when you find one explore it, acknowledge it and learn how to dull it's sharp edge

Triggers are certain topics, words, or actions from others or objects that surround you in your daily life that can bring back negative memories or feelings. One way to detect if you have triggers is to pay close attention to your feelings throughout the day and to observe what brought these feelings on. If something small or minor happened and it brought back a very bad memory or emotion, you likely have a trigger, and figuring out what that trigger is is very important in learning how to cope with it. Being triggered is common and hard to deal with, but deciphering different triggers is only the first step to healing.

In the context of mental health, a trigger is anything that consistently causes a negative emotional reaction or negative thinking patterns in an individual. For instance, if someone is intensely afraid of spiders, seeing an image of a spider or hearing the word spider might be a trigger for them. For myself, the way I identify triggers is as follows: 1. I think about strong negative emotional reactions or negative thoughts that I get frequently 2. I think of what typically causes these to happen which I can now take note of as being triggers for me. And you're done! I hope this helps!

A trigger is when a current event prompts the memory of a past event. Usually something traumatic. For example, I had a stalker in the past and the court case is still ongoing. When a 7cups user wants to talk about stalkers or brings up stalking, I feel my chest tighten & feel clenched. It's apparent you have a trigger if you have an automatic, uncontrollable response to something others would not have. Because I have not moved past my stalker situation, I feel triggered when I hear stories of people being stalked or stalking others, as the offender.

triggers are situations and maybe even words that provoke emotional response (like crying, unexplained anger, anxiety, feeling of helplessness), bringing back painful or uncomfortable memories or causing distress. If certain situations (that may even be benevolent to others) routinely invoke similar painful reactions, then it probably means it is a trigger. Try to observe what situations, people or topics make you experience these painful emotions and note if there is a pattern. For example, if any mention of commitment makes you feel uncomfortable,anxious or defensive, then perhaps there is a certain issue in the past that created that trigger and you may want to explore this and try to figure out a way to remove that trigger