What Has Been Your Weirdest Trigger?

[Jen93]

Well, you really did take the cake on the weirdest trigger. XD

 

[jibber]

Any situation where I feel I've put myself in a situation where I have to rely on others. The most recent one was when I was out at a pub with a friend of mine (one of my supporters now, though at the time he didn't really know what was going on), and an acquaintance. I realized that I'd forgotten my wallet and would have to borrow money to get a bus back home. I was then in the middle of a flashback of standing in the middle of the highway screaming for help after my attack and watching cars slow down and drive past me without stopping. I got really angry at them for telling me to calm down and that lending me the $1.25 for the bus fare was really not a big deal. I then got even angrier when I realized there was no way I could avoid accepting the offer.

 

[Dethuan]

School classes, dark streets with no lights, a slap behind the head ussually sends me on the first bus to lala land....and screeching tires tend to paralyze me. I tend to have a really hard time crossing the street.
Probably not all that weird huh?

 

[Jen93]

When people call me Jenny. Call me Jen or Jennifer- Nobody can call me Jenny anymore.

 

[Kimpersonal]

I used to feel the same about Kimmi ... just call me Kim or Kimberley. I still don't like to identify with the "Kimmi" days of my past ... but it no longer triggers me as severely as it used to. Maybe exposure therapy ... allowing others (silly co-workers mostly) to call me Kimmi in a gentle or playful manner has helped this in my case. At first I saw red when this name was used. Then my eyes blurred with tears I shed in the privacy of a bathroom stall. Now, I inwardly cringe and feel gross ... want to get home and shower ASAP ... but it is not overwhelming.

I have other triggers and reactions to them to overwhelm me. So ... how do I find ways to expose myself to a rapist, a child-abuser and the many other monsters I've met along the way thereafter who took advantage of my vulnerabilities ... exploited them even?

Maybe I should become a prison guard? Oh wait ... they put more people away for petty theft and fraud than for violent crimes.

Sorry for the short rant.... it just bubbled up like a loong belch of sulphuric gas. Rotten egg after taste.

 

[Spiderallis]

Batman, not the cartoon or movies so much as tee shirts or things with the batman symbol. I can't handle the smell of orange juice, that one's a double-trigger, sort of got over it once before it became something even worse.

 

[Missionaryman]

The words, "public hospital." usually get me. I've been triggered by Hall's throat Lozenges. The way it clears your breathing was the same clear breathing I had after I was run over by a car. pretty crazy.

 

[Jen93]

I screamed at a member here on chat- MrsG09- simply because I was dissociating and flashing back. I'm sorry for that, it's not her fault. :( The trigger was the "Mrs." part of her name. If I hear or see someone say Mr. , Mrs., Miss., those are triggers.

I get emotionally triggered in November- I get really really depressed and that was actually the month I got diagnosed with PTSD three years ago. I couldn't figure it out, but now I have- Nanny #2 AKA the person who primarily traumatized me (I didn't know until yesterday though) came in November after Nanny # 1 left after her husband had a heart attack. I was so mean to all the nannies, but I was only ten... I didn't want a nanny, I wanted my Mommy.

 

[Smushroom]

Just recently I was triggered by 2 stupid things. Glen 20 antibacterial spray and a light switch in the house I'm staying in at the moment, it's upside down! You turn it on, and it's in the off position, turn off, and it's in the on position. He had the same switch in his bedroom...

 

[Jen93]

I learned that being too happy or too sad is a trigger for me. After acting silly in chat, my left shoulder started to hurt again, and it looked red like a sunburn, but I haven't been anywhere sunny. I screamed, and it went away. So.... I have to be numb to avoid getting hurt? I don't want to be a robot for the rest of my life to avoid flashbacks. :( This sucks.

 

[TeddySue]

Lav said: "movement in the bed."
SUCH a HUGE trigger! Especially after I found out it really was my perverted so-called husband masturbating in his sleep. This is the first time I've been able to write that...

I wear earplugs every single night to block out any noise; can't stand ANY noise. They have to wake me very gently or else I come up in a rage. Now that one is from my so-called dad when we went camping for years; every morning he got up early and stood outside my camper window and made a LOT of noises just to see me explode. And no, it was not a child being disrespectful of her father, it was an intense trigger of the times when I was little and he abused and neglected me to the point that I was ashamed that I ever wanted his attention. Never got it after I told my mother some things; and before, the attention was abuse.

 

[Seeka]

When I wash my face in the shower

The actors Oscar Isaac and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. When I go into my closet and someone comes up behind me. The smell of cinnamon Christmas candles. Tucked in bed sheets. Touching someone's foot accidentally under a table. Talking on the phone around other people.