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

A trigger is something that sets off a memory or flashback taking the person back to the event of her/his original trauma. Triggers are very personal, and vary from one person to another. The senses identified as being the most common to trigger someone are sight and sound, touch and smell. These triggers can create a combination of sensations, calling back a difficult or traumatic past event you've been through. You do know that you have one, when you relive the event as if it was happening right now, including all the sensations and feelings of that moment.

Any stimuli that make you react in a certain way, is a trigger, for example, if you are sensitive to certain issues for eg, role of women, men, family, etc, and someone say a derogatory stuff about it, you will find it difficult to bear that person, you may be angry or indulge in heated argument with that person, so those specific issues are here are triggers, and that person's derogatory comments on it are triggering actions for you, to know about your triggers, retrospect wat were the things in the past that made you behave certainly in a predictable way, introspection is also needed to know Wat are the things whose mentioning in a certain way, whose sight, or sound even make you behave and react in a certain way,

Sometimes if I hear a particular song I'll feel panicked and anxious. I'll end up having to leave the room or turn the song off and sometimes I'll have a panic attack. The song is so descriptive and I feel like I 100 prevent relate to it and sometimes it's too much for me to handle. It'll bring up memories I try to suppress and forget. I do my best to avoid listening it it but a lot of people like the song so every now and then I'll hear it while I'm out.

I think a trigger can be described as something that sets off an emotion inside of you (positive emotions included.) For example, seeing a friend could trigger happiness, or a traffic jam could trigger annoyance. To see what triggers you have in your life, take a step back and realize what is causing your emotion. Identifying triggers in your life can help you realize what causes unhealthy emotions or unhealthy behaviors, and how you can cope with situations that may trigger you.

Triggers are anything that reminds you of something negative or upsetting that may have happened to you or you may have seen or heard of happening to someone else. Triggers can be things like smells, places, people, voices, music and lots of other things. You may be able to identify your triggers if there is something in particular that regularly reminds you of something upsetting.

Triggers are things that cause you to pannic or send you into depresave state or a pannic attack. They are usaly linked to things like PTSD or extream anxieaty. If you have one then whenever a topic is mentioned you freak out or it completly ruins your day. My ex girlfiend had a trigger that whenever her dads name was said she would have a pannic attack.

A trigger is something that makes you emotionally react (usually negatively) - sound, place, person, situation. It is difficult to pinpoint your triggers but a lot of times it is certain experiences that made us feel negative in past and certain situation occurring now is triggering the same negative feeling from your past. You will definitely see if you have one if you are watching your feelings closely. For example: Someone trying to control you. Someone being needy, or trying to smother you. If you feel negative emotional response to these or other scenarios you can think of, that is your trigger.

Distress, typically as a result of arousing feelings or memories associated with a particular traumatic experience. Especially of something seen, read or heard. It can cause flashbacks & such or memories.

Triggers are sounds, phrases, places, people, or things that suddenly bring about an intense emotion, usually negative. An example is a kid who grew up being called fat-- as an adult, somebody jokes to him and calls him fat. All of a sudden, his face gets red, he becomes increasingly angry, and cannot control his behavior as he holds a fist and starts towards the person who called him fat.

A trigger is something that creates an anxiety response based on past trauma. It can sometimes be difficult to determine whether or not something is a trigger, but by paying attention to the stimuli and thoughts that were present directly before the anxiety is noticed, it is possible to identity a trigger.