What Has Been Your Weirdest Trigger?

[KP the nut]

Being a passenger in a car. I think it must be an "out of control" thing.

Cars are my trigger, related to the accident which triggered my PTSD

 

[jasmin]

I wouldn't say it is necessarily a weird trigger but I find when I am hungry and feel like I am being controlled in some way.. I get really angry violent thoughts/feelings overtake me. I had an instance of this the other day at work but I did well at calming myself down - POWER ON!

 

[Srain]

University campuses. I've only just this past year been able to watch a college football game on TV without freaking out after 30yrs. I still cannot walk onto a campus without full-on panic attacks and vertigo, all of which was triggered again when I tried to face my fear with my therapist several years ago. I was blindsided by speaking along side a woman who supported a pedaphile husband that family members had charged legally and was retraumatized.

So many years I spent in so many Universities that I was once caught off guard going through one before I knew what was happening to me and was gasping running out of the building, my poor husband hadn't realized the extent of my issues with it at the time. So I'm working on it.

 

[Sethe]

U.S. sirens (ambulance, police or fire). U.K. sirens are ok- they don't bother me (well, think of the one in the Black S4bbath song).

When I hear sirens, I automatically start to move into crying mode. I feel scared, my face screws up and I have to fight to not cry. I have no idea why. This happened today.

 

[stray_girl]

-Dishes breaking, dropping, or making loud noises.
-screams, sirens
-How people smell with a hangover
-Stale pot smoke
-Being in a room with a shut door- as soon as someone shuts the door. I've yelled at someone about this. :(
-Scenes of abuse and domestic violence on TV or books
-and anything similar to what my mom did to me, play fighting and horsing around can turn bad in a split second. My boyfriend put his hand over my mouth to "shush" me, he was joking, but immediately I felt like I was being choked.
there's other things, but the kind of trigger that's only happened once. i've also had flashbacks so many times without knowing what exactly might have started it, not knowing what memory I was reminded of.

 

[Incendiu]

The smell of some marker pens for children...but I think it's just some colors...every color smells different and there is two-three of them I just cant stand...Don't remember what colors but hardly can look at them since I noticed they triggered flashbacks and the strong memory that came back some few years ago...But anything that come near the smell of those colors I avoid...

 

[Bosco2153]

Men 50ish+ with rounded bellies. Men smiling with few or no teeth. Men with short wide hands and fingers. Lately...small children, dirty feet, hollow core cheap doors with brass knobs, colored bath fixtures...especially green. Homes with lots of cats and cat smells. Cluttered children's bedrooms.

 

[ClairBear226]

How interesting! I never thought about seasons. It is amazing how and what the brain remembers and how it effects us.

Spero[/quote]

Yep. Summer for me.

Weirdest, though, would have to be the color pink.

 

[ClairBear226]

How interesting! I never thought about seasons. It is amazing how and what the brain remembers and how it effects us.

Spero

Yep. Summer for me.

Weirdest one would have to be the color pink.

 

[atl22]

Donuts.

My idiot friend wanted donuts but the donut shop was 1 block inside a gang-infested neighborhood. We walked into a huge brawl (which I think he knew about beforehand) and I ended up getting beaten with a steel pipe in a parking lot with a glazed donut in my hand.

 

[Smorck5]

I don't like having doors shut on me when I'm in a room either, and I have also yelled people for this. :(

 

[Gunchief]

Helicopters