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What Are Your Triggers?

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chant2012

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Does anyone else have weird triggers? Feel free to share below. This is my list:

The video game 'Skyrim'



'Star Wars' (or anything associated with it) 



Breathing or being kissed on or around my neck (but I can tolerate it during sex only now, and only because I trust my boyfriend 100%) 



Sometimes being f**gered will REALLY trigger me (but not like it used to) 



S*x in general is triggering although not as bad as it once was... It is weird, it is usually hard for me to have s*x or to "get started" but once we start it is tolerable but then at other times during the middle of it I will just FREAK out and like cry and start to shake or I will just "blank out" and go inside of myself. My response varies and I never know how I will react so it is hard for me to have it now because I never know how I will react and it is embarrassing.



Guys who look or sound a certain way (tone of voice)



Guys with a certain name.....



Certain songs/movies



Domestic Violence

Being threatened with death (even if in a "joking manner") ... Yeah, I know, who would joke about that...

Being choked or having my breathing restricted/strangled

Being hugged or grabbed out of nowhere

Being touched or tickled without my permission

My dad pinching my butt and pretending that he will touch my breasts

Mind control/Gas-Lighting/'Conditioning"

Their names



The 'cabin' (where it took place) 


Anything that reminds me of him (my dad is best friends with him. Still...)



The numbers 22 and 29. (They are dates.) 12/29/11 and 09/22/12... 



Just, lately I have this 'feeling' of something in my head that needs to be known and I can almost sense it but it's not there. I KNOW that probably made no sense at all...


Leather braided belts

Being followed or harassed and feeling as if I have no escape route (I don't know why this is, my r*pes had nothing to do with stalking)

A guy saying, "You look sexy/hot when you smoke."

Driving by certain places. I almost get these "visions" or pictures in my head but at the same time I can't see them. Does that make sense?

Fall/Autumn

Leaves (changing of the colors)

Corn/beans

Scarecrows

Full Moons (sometimes)

Religion/Bible verses trigger me a lot

People threatening me with burning alive in h*ll for all eternity

Being told I'm scum and that I'll go to h*ll for being an unrighteous and vile girl

Being called stupid, a crybaby, annoying, being told I'll amount to nothing or being made to feel like I'll amount to nothing

Bud Light both the beer and the can

Torture type of activities both mental and physical

Being choked or having my breathing restricted

The smell of urine especially if it's on my clothes/my clothes being wet (he urinated on my body when be was finished)

Porky the Pig

Being hugged out of nowhere

People smacking a ruler or other wooden sticks on their hands making a cracking noise

Being trapped

Electricity (the sound of it really, the buzzing sound it makes)

Men putting my hand on their p*nis

Being forced to kiss someone

Having someone talk my clothes off while I'm drugged/drunk or asleep

Being hurt intentionally

Sometimes woods/timber will trigger me especially at night
 
I have a lot of those same ones you listed. My most random one I can think of is that I have a huge phobia reaction of the inside of the back tank of the toilet and the machinary inside. Doesn't bother me at all when the lid is closed but as soon as the lid is open I can just feel the fear in the pit of my stomach. I remember what this is attached to, but my body, and I guess a certain part of my brain, does not care that the memory isn't relevant anymore. I've also heard that a lot of abuse victims have a huge fear of buttons but I don't have that one.
 
None of those sound weird at all. Many of them I share.

Here's my list
Any high school
Shows about teenagers
Groups of teenage boys
White cargo vans
Certain neighborhoods in my town
People I knew in high school (Social media is great for this)
Being gas lighted
Being told I'm crazy
Parties
Having my mouth covered
Dry foods like crackers
McDonalds
Not being allowed to have cigarettes
Jokes about rape
Being singled out for attention
Rope
Drums/drummers
Winter especially Febuary
Your mom jokes
Sex
Bullying/being ganged up on
 
Let's see:

-Children
-the news
-crime shows
-children's toys
-a city near me
-a courthouse near me
-chubby, average height, round faced men
-Being naked (even if I'm just going to shower)
-Baths (rare these days but still happens)
-Old people that have dementia
-violence
-sexual violence
-oversexualization of anyone, no matter age range
-pregnancy
-death
-fear of dying
-fear of turning into a serial killer or lesbian (I'm neither)
-some video games
-any type of screen (TV, computer)
-porn

That's all I can think of for now.
 
Cold weather
Snow
Hawaiian shirts
Lots of keys
Hands too close to my face
Living Rooms
My mom yelling
People gritting their teeth
Reggae Music
Any type of violence in any shows
Any type of violence against animals
Riding a bike
Car getting to close
Knives
Guns being fired off
Fireworks close to home (not the big ones like the ones for 4th of july the little ones that sound like guns)
Any time I become very sick
Any time I here old music
Any time i see family
Any time i see brown leather belts
Any time I see boxing
Any time my hair is combed roughly or pulled
Any time I am made fun of
 
No triggers are weird triggers.

"Weird" is a negative value word.

Calling something "weird" is assigning negative value to it.

Assigning negativity to a trigger induces shame.

I don't need any more shame.

None of my triggers are "weird".
 
Not having money

Messy, unclean home

Ex partner (major)

Gaining too much weight/losing too much weight

Loneliness gets conflated with abandonment melange as brilliantly described by Pete Walker

Not knowing what I'm feeling

Sugar

Someone wanting romantic intimacy

Mindfulness practice (sometimes)
 
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