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

A trigger is an emotional response to a person, situation, event, or even a type of media (a song, movie, or book). The response can be varied, whether it be rage, sadness, anxiety, or something else. You may not realize at first that something is a trigger for you, and you might find yourself confused as to how or why you're feeling this way, and react without realizing that it's because you were triggered. I would suggest trying to remember things that happen prior to these sudden emotional changes, and finding the common links. This will help you to figure out whether or not you have a trigger, and what it could be. I hope this helps!

Triggers are certain things that cause your anxiety to worsen. To know if you have one, try recording every time you have more anxiety than usual, and see if there is a repeating subject that causes it.

If something reminds you of something that happened to you that make you feel unconformable or uneasy.

Triggers are something that "trigger" a bad memory or experience. You may have one if you experience bad memory flash backs when something similar is brought up.

A trigger is a subject varying from person to person, bringing them back to a traumatic experience in their life. If something was brought up into the conversation that makes you think of something terrible that happened to you in the past, you might start to feel anxious and start thinking about that moment in your life.

Triggers are basically situations (be it people, places, words, songs, sounds, smells, tastes or something else) that brings back some kind of negative memory or feeling. Triggers can make the person feel depressed, have panic attacks/anxiety attacks or any other reaction. Everyone has different triggers, depending on which life experience they've gone through. To know if you have a trigger, just be attentive as to when you feel strong negative reactions (such as I mentioned, feeling depressed, anxious or having some kind of panic or anxiety attack) and what may have caused it. You can even keep a journal, if you end up having many negative reactions, and keep track of what triggered each thing - it may be helpful.

Triggers are actions or words that spring up unwanted feelings or emotions in you. They are dangerous and can cause relapses. If you feel evoked by them the you know.

A trigger is something that brings forward emotions in you based on your previous experiences. My boyfriend likes to say that life is full of triggers. I would say that a problematic trigger would be one that brings forward emotions that you still have yet to tackle or that still wound you in some way. For example, if you have been trapped in an elevator and experience panic when approaching a confined area, you may be experiencing one of your triggers.

Triggers are things or topics that are closely related to a traumatic event you may have experienced. For example, one of my triggers is beer bottles clinking together. This is because I grew up in a home with alcoholics. That sound "triggers" memories that are closely associated with negative events, thus causing panic attacks, anxiety, or sadness. Triggers can be sounds, words, images, concepts, or even smells and tastes. If you ever feel overwhelmingly anxious or sad seemingly out of nowhere, evaluate your environment and see if there's anything that happened that makes you feel especially upset. If this specific thing causes you to feel that way again, it's likely that is a trigger for you. It's hard to avoid triggers sometimes, but by being aware of what sparks our negative memories we can better control how often we are confronted by these feelings.

Similar to how a trigger causes a bullet to be released from a gun, triggers in life can be anything that causes or leads a specific behavior to occur. For example, I have anxiety that causes panic attacks. Whenever I am in uncomfortable situations that stress me out, I can have a panic attack. Although this is a very general example, stress in this scenario would be my trigger. Identifying your trigger can help you to overcome problems that you may be facing. Once you know what the problem is, you can work towards finding a solution to that problem to prevent the trigger from leading to the behavior.