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What Has Been Your Weirdest Trigger?

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Not sure if these are weird but...

- a belt buckle tinking
- a loud yell while I am eating
- door knocking. any door knocking, but especially someone knocking hard...

oh, here's the weird one... Eastern European accents. Guess where my parents are from? I hear that accent, my body gets ready to rumble.
 
-My father raising his voice (him cursing, yelling, drinking, doing his drugs)
-Looking into my dad's eyes....I HATE his f*cking eyes....I feel anger and I just "go bye-bye" lol :D
-My mother ignoring me/me feeling like she's ignoring me
-People touching me....
-I've had a flash back where I see a bloody Green and White Tree Sweater, and I hear screams so loud that it feels like they're tearing me apart (HUGE ONE)
-The Cocking of a Gun (HUGE TRIGGER)

You guys have to promise NOT to laugh at this one....sometimes when I get an "booooing" on certain things.....I dissociate...lol ok, yea, it's funny, laugh....:rolleyes: lol
 
Yesterday I picked up a pebble to scare away a Crow from attacking a Robin's nest. Without "thinking" I attempted to throw ( I used to have an extremely accurate arm) the stone to scare not hurt the crow. The pain in my shoulder after making the wayward toss was one of most intense sharp pain I have not felt in a long time (I cannot describe it well but it was worse then when I missed a pool I attempted to jump into from a roof top above and hit its metal side to which required surgery then months in full cast of the knee injury I suffered) as I have a high tolerance for physical pain usually...

I ran into my sisters home, sat in this big leather armed chair where in past I have found this position in that i could rest my arm when it ached in somewhat comfort. Not this time!...Sweat poured from my upper torso I struggled to gulp down water from a cup I left on the cocktail server right next to me. After the drink for I do not know how long flash bangs of the attack that was the root cause of my now injured shoulder whacked at me from all sides, just intense pieces of it and they have never been so sharp in contrast of shades of gray...I do not know how long they lasted but eventually I came back down to earth through a misty hazed cloud. "Great" now keyboarding is more worse than ever.............
 
--Anyone coming at my face when it involves food, like "Here try this" or when your kids are little and they try to feed you--any reaching toward my face if I am eating or drinking.
--Trying to make myself eat when I'm not hungry or I don't like the food (like to be polite to a host or if I know I should eat because I haven't been eating)
--The scraping sound a chair makes if it has metal legs on a tile floor (makes me want to vomit just thinking about it)

My abuse involved a great deal of force feeding while tied in a chair :(
 
surgical scrubs, the sound and vibration of drills, the numb feeling from anesthetics, correspondence from doctors or hospitals.
 
Ok I know this is really dumb but Chickens and crows! Can't leave the house if there is more then one in my yard....thankfully my dog hates birds and is on it!
 
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