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

Triggers are any thing that sets off an extreme reaction. Now by extreme I tend to include extreme inward reactions such as passive aggressiveness or anxiety etc. These aren't always outwardly expressed. As for how to know you have a trigger. Mindfulness. If you are mindful, you'll be able to detect these sensations as they occur and what actually sets them off. Mindfulness allows you to reflect on the here and now, being able to identify what is going on inside you and then actively taking actions to make it better.

Triggers are events, words or situations that cause an uncomfortable psychological reaction within you. If you find yourself avoiding a certain event, or feeling very strange and tense because of something, it could be a trigger.

Triggers are feelings, emotions/ behaviours etc caused by a situation you have experienced and so when something similar crops up it triggers flash back feelings or thoughts to the past situation and releases the associated feelings/ behaviors etc.....you may know if you have one if when you get these experiences you start to make a note of it and what was happening at the time that brought on the emotion/ feeling/ behaviour then expressed. You can also attend counselling or Cognitive behavioural Therapy which can help with this.

Triggers are when something urges you to do something, for example you can have a trigger for your panic attacks, or self harm, many people i know can have something said to them, or see a photo that could lead to "triggering" them to self harm or have a panic attack.

Triggers are something that makes you feel bad about yourself or something that could make you suicidal or depressed. If you have one you have to find that out.

Triggers are anything that can make you feel depressed, anxious, cause panic attacks, flash backs, etc. etc.

Triggers are things that cause you to feel upset ( anxious, scared, sick, etc). You would be able to know if something triggers you by the way it makes you feel.

Triggers are stimuli from the inside (thoughts, emotions...) or the external environment (people's behaviours and acts, facial exressions, gestures, or smth we see in the room/place, smell, hear, taste...) that unconsciously bring us back to experience an emotional flashback - a sudden wave of emotions (sadness, irritation, anger, fear, anxiety...) in a situation somehow reminding our system of a past traumatic experience due to some perceived similarities. As we realize what the triggers are, we are more able to handle them. Patient and self-compassionate acknowledgment that our body - nervous system is over-reacting to something past rather than something happening in the present circumstance might with time easy the reaction itself, not to feel it that strongly and unexpectidely, without understanding why it is there.

Triggers are events that bring upon certain emotions, memories, and behaviors, often times negative. For example, if you see a car crash, it might trigger trauma of a family member killed by one. If you feel any negative feelings from certain phenomenon, you may have a trigger

A trigger is something that sets off a memory tape or flashback transporting the person back to the event of her/his original trauma.