What is the best way to deal with a situation when you find yourself triggered?

The answer will be purely based on personal experience. It may or may not help you, but it's worth a try, I promise. So, what helps me when I am triggered is distraction. Firstly, leave the triggering place/situation/person right at the moment. Some feel guilty to have left someone in need, some feel they shouldn't leave it due to many reasons, however, what I insist is- leave. Doesn't matter if you are needed or not, doesn't matter what your brain tells you to, just leave. Nothing is as important as your health: mental or physical. Nothing is as important as you. Secondly, once you have left, try few distracting techniques. Anything that distracts your brain. Be it 54321 grounding technique, drawing, painting, colouring anything. An excellent trick is colouring. Take few ready made drawings and try to fill colour in them. Why it helps best is because it reminds you of the happiest memories of your childhood, relieves stress and distracts you brain all at the same time. Other than these, you can also try meditation, breathing techniques, listening to playlists you like or something similar. If nothing works, you can try the one thing that's your safe place. Read a book, do something that had already helped/rescued you from such situations in the past.

If possible, it would probably be best to try to remove yourself from the situation and go somewhere where you can calm down and practice any of your positive coping methods. If it's not possible to get away, you can try to do some more internal, un-noticeable practices like mindful breathing to try to get past the trigger.

The best thing to do is to remove yourself from the situation that is triggering you. After you did, doing some self care is a great idea. Some things you can do is, read, take a bath, something you enjoy. I, myself have been in a situation that as triggered me and I stepped back did some self care. After my self care I went back to talk to the other people in the situation to talk things out. I recommend you do your self care then go back to the people who were involved in the situation to talk things out.

Focus on your breathing, distract yourself, if you can get out of the room, turn off your laptop etc, excuse yourself from a conversation

You can always talk to someone close to you for help, they will help you deal with the triggers and talk you through it. Otherwise, we are always here on 7cups if you need us, so pop into teen support or consider connect on a 1-1 with a listener :)

take a breath. try not to think about it. think positive. think about you don't want to be triggered and you want to be happy.

Practicing grounding techniques - so focusing on your senses and things you can see, smell, hear, taste and feel to be inn the present moment. Pause and concentrate on breathing slow deep breaths. Remind yourself it is a temporary feeling that will wash over you like a wave if you let it. You are safe and in control.

If you are talking about real life, you can ask for the theme of the conversation to be changed or just back out. If you are talking about being a 7 Cups listener, you can refer the member/guest to another listener. For doing that, go to a Listener room and ask if anyone is availiable to chat. If they are, show the member to that listener. If no one is availiable, you can ask the member/guest to go onto the 'Browse Listeners' page and find a new listener. Politely, of course. Good luck!

Once again there is no clear answer because everyone is different and different methods work better or worse for other people. One thing that should help in some way is distraction. See friends, do some sports, cook a nice meal, Watch a movie, paint, create something, write, whatever works for you. Distraction is always a good method to clear your head for a moment.

If it is possible, find a way to excuse yourself from the situation. If you can excuse yourself, take a moment to relax, get your thoughts away from the situation. Maybe you can listen to music, take a brief walk outside, watch a video that makes you laugh.