Another Book Ask About Triggers
Added 2020-08-10 23:43:00 +0000 UTCI know, I know I keep asking for your stories.. but it really helps illustrate what trauma feels like. Right now I am working on the outline for a chapter about triggers. What they are, how it can feel to be triggered, and then how we have better managed them. Feel free to shoot me anything you have experienced when it comes to being triggered. Thank you!!! xoxo
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Never had a PTSD moment until one day at work we had an active shooter situation and had to be locked in our office. It wasn’t the active shooter as that didn’t bother me but the trapped and couldn’t move and feeling helpless waiting for it to end caused my first PTSD moment. Another episode was when I reached out to my sister to contact a cousin for me that had sexually abused me as a child and I thought I had worked through it when her name showed up on my phone I had a full blown ptsd panic attack. It took me 3-4 days to calm down and text back.
Shawn Phillips
2020-10-28 18:05:47 +0000 UTCI know I’m super late to this post, but my triggers are sudden loud noises, or when people, particularly men, walk by me in a certain way. Like fast paced. I have PTSD from being held up at my job (I work at a bank, super cliché right??) and the robber walked in very quickly and ran up to me and demanded the money from me. He had a bomb strapped to his chest and threatened to use it...so whenever people walk by me in that same fast, rushed manner, it triggers my flight, fight, or freeze. But I usually freeze, just like I did when the robbery happened.
LisaSwiftt
2020-08-24 19:02:28 +0000 UTCapparently i forgot haha
JustMcKenna
2020-08-15 03:28:01 +0000 UTCI’ll message you privately later tonight if that’s alright?
JustMcKenna
2020-08-12 16:31:36 +0000 UTCSudden loud noises like a slam always puts me in fight or flight from growing up and the un-stability of parental anger and later that of my siblings, as well. Now it's the same because it continued as an ex-spouse and teenagers with their anger as well. Recently I was really angry myself. I realized I was showing my now 18 yo the same behavior with my outbursts. I haven't shown anger in a few months now after realizing I was continuing this cycle of un-stablilty and fear response.
GothicOwlz
2020-08-11 18:28:36 +0000 UTCHello there, I'm not sure if you remember but music is my trigger. I find it overwhelming and it brings instant tears. I listen to podcasts in supermarkets to block out their tunes and I fight the crying urge every single day. It's exhausting. I've been in trauma therapy for three years and it's not gotten much better. If I play music myself, the trigger isn't there. I wish there was more research. After suffering an horrific accident towing a horse trailer, winding roads make me nervous and I will get a flash of standing by the road about to turn around and see the carnage. I can feel and hear everything. Every time I visit Melbourne I have to drive that stretch of winding road where the tragedy occurred. I can manage but I can't say I enjoy it.
BinsQ
2020-08-11 03:08:31 +0000 UTC
