"Someone says something to us, and we are suddenly struck with a sinking feeling in our stomach. Someone does something, and instantly we become enraged or alarmed. Someone comes at us with a certain attitude, and we go to pieces. We hear mention of a person, place, or thing that is associated with an unresolved issue or a past trauma, and we immediately feel ourselves seize up with sadness, anger, fear, or shame."
"A trigger is any word, person, event, or experience that touches off an immediate emotional reaction-for example, sadness, depression, anger, aggression, fear, panic, or humiliation, shame. Words, behavior, attitudes, events, even the presence of certain people, can incite reflex reactions in us over which we have no control. For example, we are suddenly surprised by a noise, and we are startled. The noise is the stimulus/trigger; the startle is the reaction."
Triggers are words, people, events, or experiences that provoke immediate emotional reactions such as sadness, anger, fear, shame, or panic. Triggered reactions can be brief startle responses or prolonged obsessions that leave a person feeling unsafe and insecure. Reactions to triggers are often excessive in magnitude and duration compared with the stimulus. Triggers serve as signals indicating unresolved issues or past trauma that require inner work. Avoiding all triggers is impossible, but large reactions can be diminished by creating new neural patterns while impulses to react may persist.
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