is this just part of ptsd or something? am i being triggered?
Check this out >>>
Stressor vs. Trigger - What Is A Trigger? Both definitions AND tips/tricks on dealing with them :sneaky:
Ditto this >>>
The ptsd cup explanation
could anything else be causing it?
Whilst triggers & stressors & dysregulation are so much part & parcel with PTSD they’re coare symptoms (
Ptsd diagnosis ). Yep. There are a number of different things that could be causing an extreme sensitivity to sound &/or certain sounds; & for your emotions to be spiking out of control, both independently & directly correlated to those sounds. Ear infections, bone infection, seizure triggers, hormonal imbalance (particularly thyroid in women, also pregnancy & menopause), some types of head injuries, certain types of cancer, side effects of some kinds of medication/drugs, symptoms of other disorders, symptoms of other diseases... the list goes on for some time, at some length, but I’m sure you get the drift. Yep. Lots and lots of possible causes.
HOWEVER? If you’re getting regular medical care, so anything new -like an inner ear infection, hormonal imbalance, seizure activity, etc.- would be caught; and you didn’t self-diagnose but went through the process of ruling out other disorders and medical causes? Then, it’s pretty safe to assume that unless you’re standing on the Serengeti Plains of Africa -or the Zoo enclosure- that the hoof prints you’re looking at belong to horses, not Zebras. Meaning? If you’ve been diagnosed with PTSD, and are experiencing symptoms common to PTSD, then what you’re looking at are probably symptoms of PTSD ;)
does anyone else have this issue?
For sure. Both to the screaming -although my reaction (and what can cause it) is somewhat different than yours- and dealing with stressors & triggers in general.
and what do you do in situations when you cannot avoid it?
1. I don’t avoid my triggers and stressors, as a rule. Doesn’t mean I never avoid them, but avoiding triggers and stressors not only doesn’t work long term, but makes the trigger/stressor worse. So instead, I LIMIT them in different ways, whilst working on eliminating them. (By either chipping away at the trigger/stressor itself, or by going after the root cause and processing the trauma that causes them to be a trigger/stressor in the first place. The difference between plucking all the fruit of the poison tree, so that it won’t be eaten, and chopping the damn thing down so it won’t grow more poison fruit! :sneaky: Both methods work. Chipping away at the trigger/stressor itself is the fastest, but going after the root cause is the most effective.
2. It depends on how much warning I have I’m going to be dealing with it... and the situation itself. Meaning I have a whoooooooole lotta different ways I deal with things, but as this is already a novel, I’ll come back to it in a different post, if it’s useful.
