I cannot like this enough times. People need to stop. Triggers are for veterans, victims, and all the people who have suffered and struggled in legitimate ways no entitled little bitch on Tumblr could even begin to empathize with.
Thank you! As somebody with issues I seriously want to freaking smack some of these people that use that term because their coffee was made wrong or somebody tries to be nice and hold open a door!
It's really frustrating that the word triggered now has that connotation of annoying entitled snowflakes and so people dismiss things that could actually trigger people like victims of abuse or traumatic events. especially veterans
Sob until you pass out because you can't breathe. Make your head spin from the lack of air in your lungs. Make claw marks in your skin trying to feel anything but how you feel.
I'd just like to point out that not all triggers cause results that are quite that drastic. For example, I used to self-harm. For me, pictures of cuts or razors, or sometimes even the word "cut" can be triggering, but it doesn't send me into a panic attack or anything like that.
No, because sometimes it makes me feel like I want to self harm again. I guess maybe it could fall under flashbacks? Idk but it's definitely more than just feeling uncomfortable. And even if that's all it did make me feel, those things would still be triggering.
I think this 3 part definition above is a bit randomly specific, as it is about a psychological process. If a certain stimulus makes a person consider to restart self-harming behaviour, why not call this stimulus a trigger?
Trigger can also mean a small mechanism that sets of a spring or catch which makes an object work. It can also be a cause. It is also, unfortunately a horrible thing that legit happens to people and causes some serious problems. A trigger for a peanut allergy would be a peanut. Chill out a moment, while some of these bitches might be triggered by the word cis and that is bad, some might just have allergies,
Thank you.
There have been far too many instances when I've seen someone whining about being "triggered" by some innocent joke, mildly offensive comment, or valid opinion... Most of the time, I have to restrain myself from butting in and demanding, "Look, moron, does this give you flashbacks of the day you saw a man shot in the head? Does it take you back to the night your father, in a drunken rage, wrapped his hands around your throat in an honest attempt to choke the life out of you? Does is send you into uncontrollable sobs of panic or overwhelming grief, or make you want to cut just to have some tangible connection to reality? No? Then shut the hell up. Because I've been there, done that, and lived through it. Get over it."
Thank you. As an individual with high severity panic disorder, I find the fact that some people really know what "trigger" means comforting. Personally, I can be triggered by hearing yelling, being embraced without warning, taser/popping noises, certain specific places, random night terrors, etc... I get the sensation that my body is on fire for 5-16 minutes, screaming bloody murder and trying to rip my skin off as I writhe on the floor.
I was beated and assaulted several years ago. Now anytime I'm going to be around some alot I have to warn people not to touch me from behind or loom behind me. Some people will still do it anyway because they think its no big deal....until I end up having a panic attack in public.
You know what screw you. I opened up about a trauma too and you nit pick because of one typo, at least that I can find. Forgive me, I'm on a phone with a tiny keyboard and I have nerve damage thanks to my assault.
What is so confusing about my comment? I stated the source of my PTDS(beaten and raped), the actual trigger (being touched from behind or having someone loom over me from behind), and the fact that many people do not take it seriously, and what happens when I am actually triggered (the panic attack).
I went through some counseling but haven't had much luck with meds. Those that actually helped made me either extremely sick ir in a heavy fog, which I can't handle.
*descends from the clouds*
YES
There have been far too many instances when I've seen someone whining about being "triggered" by some innocent joke, mildly offensive comment, or valid opinion... Most of the time, I have to restrain myself from butting in and demanding, "Look, moron, does this give you flashbacks of the day you saw a man shot in the head? Does it take you back to the night your father, in a drunken rage, wrapped his hands around your throat in an honest attempt to choke the life out of you? Does is send you into uncontrollable sobs of panic or overwhelming grief, or make you want to cut just to have some tangible connection to reality? No? Then shut the hell up. Because I've been there, done that, and lived through it. Get over it."