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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friday" data-source="post: 1771516" data-attributes="member: 27208">Not from an academic/scientific description/definition, specific to PTSD.Which I’m qualifying, because -yep!- in most of psych a stressor is “just” a major life event like job loss, the death of a child, etc. There’s no scaling, because ANY stressor can activate a pre-existing condition…. And the stressor can cause the whole durn rainbow of responses.But with PTSD? Triggers are trauma specific, stressors are trauma adjacent, and stress/stressors life stuff. All 3 CAN cause a symptomatic reaction, but none are inherantly greater/lesser than any other… someone can be triggered and recover in seconds, meanwhile a stressor can cause as severe a reaction as rapid decompensation leading to psychosis. And vice versa. Ditto, stress levels alone can take someone to being completely nonfunctional &/or kick off a symptomatic reaction as severe as either a trigger or stressor. Or can be relatively mild. The degree of reaction is not what determines if it’s a trigger or stressor or stress… with PTSD… but how linked to trauma it happens to be.For Stress see <a href="https://www.myptsd.com/threads/the-ptsd-cup-explanation.83659/" target="_blank">The ptsd cup explanation</a>For Triggers & Stressors see <a href="https://www.myptsd.com/threads/stressor-vs-trigger-what-is-a-trigger.9903/" target="_blank">Stressor vs. Trigger - What Is A Trigger?</a></blockquote>