What Has Been Your Weirdest Trigger?

[seeking serenity]

Weirdest trigger for me was the sound of my kitty cleaning herself.

 

[FunkyMonkey]

Looking into my own eyes is my strongest/weirdest trigger...

 

[Helliepig]

I once was in a restaurant in a store and got a sudden flashback looking at the floor- it was grey speckled with flecks of gold and colour. I couldn't understand it until i got the same sensation wrapping my sons christmas present in disney paper. I stared at it intently and rembered the colours - from stamps i used to collect when i was little. Forgotten until that moment. The brain is amazing!

 

[gigi2690]

My weirdest triggers are probably build-a-bear toys and stores, the song jumpin' jumpin' by Destiny's Child, and hearing the word "pookie." They're all connected to particularly bad childhood memories. They are also very hard to explain... try explaining why seeing a stuffed toy causes you to have a panic attack.

Also... literally today at target someone "lovingly" named a stuffed toy on the shelf "pookie" and I had to sit down and breathe deep breaths in the middle of the store. Did I mention I was with my two younger sisters hence being in the toy aisle? When it was over I told them I was meditating. Oh triggers, you make life interesting.

 

[NIKI]

Holidays trigger me...my parents RUINED everyone of them in my childhood with their FIGHTING and drinking.

 

[Grace Hope]

Any loud sudden noise
Sirens, the more sirens the worse it gets, police ambulance and Fire Brigade
Police Officers and iv`e never even been arrested
People I don`t know walking towards me
Small confined spaces
The hum noise of vacum cleaners and grass cutters
At a nurse appointment last week I had a panic attack, I don`t know why
A family who live less than 200 yards from me
Aggressive people
some times I get agoraphobic

 

[Martin Taylor]

Me too. Every holiday for years. Then we had to pretend it was OK and someone was sick.

 

[Sethe]

Weirdest trigger for me was the sound of my kitty cleaning herself.

I have a big problem with this one too. BIG.

 

[maddog]

Car windscreen wipers... I wish I had the faintest idea why. It's really distressing me at the moment for some reason, triggering just to think about.

 

[olaja]

Many things - but the weirdest trigger was two men dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Terrifying.

 

[Kb3]

The newspaper. Today there were front page stories in every paper about the inhumane and undignified way that elderly people are treated by doctors and nurses in many, many hospitals in this country.

Report after report about this issue is generated and nothing ever seems to change. No one seems to care at all, and these people continue hurting and humiliating vulnerable patients unchecked.

Brought my trauma screaming right back to the present. :cry:

 

[Grace Hope]

This abuse thing with elderly people in this country gets me too but what is often missed out when these types of abuses come to light is ANY ill and infirm person whether they are old or not have humanitarian rights.
Last year I had an operation on my right shoulder, i`m right handed, my arm was put in a sling, I had a saline drip and a pain relief drip in my left arm. I have physical disabilities as well as CPTSD which causes mobility problems. My name was not put above my bed, I was given no water after my drip was taken out, my hand swelled up like a balloon and nothing was done about any of it. In my ward alone during my couple of days stay all four of us were ignored. Basic things like how to mobilise ourselves, our correct daily meds, or how were we going to eat seemed too much for the staff to deal with. As I had started to have panic attacks and Hyperventilate since I was refused a mobility assessment the day before and I knew I wasn`t going to get any home care via the hospital or Social Services anyway so I booked myself out, I was too scared to stay and at home I had all my own familiar stuff, bed, TV, cats etc.. I did say to the nurse why I wanted to ho home - her reply " oh. "
Why work in a hospital if you don`t care about peoples basic needs. Like myself, you don`t expect to go into hospital and come out with psycological issues especially when your old like the other people in my ward.
My operation was a sucess by the way and has helped me a lot.
When these abuses of these elderly people came to light as I read my newspaper my heart gave a thud, I took a deep breath, I thought another thing that sets me off, great, as I waited for the intrusive thoughts then the panic attacks to follow.