How can knowing your trauma Triggers help with your emotional flashbacks?

[Lily44]

I’ve heard that knowing your trauma, Triggers helps with emotional flashbacks and I’m wondering how. I mean I already know it can help you anticipate that something’s coming so then you can try to avoid it or have your basic grounding skills available but i’m wondering about things other than that - it seems like knowing information about the trauma trigger i.e. (what happened in the past) could somehow be used in a constructive manner to help lessen the pain of the emotional flashback and I’d love to know what other people do

 

[arfie]

when i am repressing the memories and emotions of my traumas, reminders are vicious triggers that wreak havoc in my functional capacities. for what it's worth, the current popular rhetoric about triggers is inaccurate for my own case. i feel safer predicting next season's fashion trends than predicting what trivial detail is going to trigger a psychotic episode. trigger warnings are as meaningful as the color of eye shadow.

when i am at peace with what happened, a reminder is just a reminder. the memories remain ugly as sin, but the processing allows me to continue on with my current day without getting lost in the past.

in addition, it makes it far easier to be aware of and learn from past mistakes.

 

[Friday]

Because when you know your triggers you can start working on them, chipping away at them, until they provoke exactly zero response, whatsoever. Even if your trauma is wildly unprocessed.

 

[Friday]

Tips of the iceberg… below.

How to use triggers as a means to recovery?

To answer this question, lets first define a psychological trigger. A trigger is an activated traumatic memory due to your present environment via one or more of your five senses, sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. A trigger will result in a symptomatic or behavioral response. To fully...

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Working with triggers

Triggers are part and parcel of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). If you have PTSD, you have triggers of some kind that cause a symptomatic reaction. The positive to triggers is that with time and effort you can remove them or lessen the symptomatic impact to non-distressing levels. Many...

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