yes there are triggers Keep the biggest book that you have in your back pack and if 1 of those assholes fuck with you ,Swing that back pack as hard as you can. swing for the head and go for a home run. I promise those bullies will find someone else to pick on.

I was looking for triggers when I arrived here at DS and really no one would give me a 'this is what triggers do' But I found along the way that yes I had them, Silly me how could I have not known?

A "Trigger" is something that though benign to others has very great significance to the who gets triggered and goes off on a rampage. They either hurt them-self's, others or knowing they are triggered just shut down..There is a reverse to this that I have found and it is them tears! Tears of happiness, tears of sadness...oh it just goes on and on....

there is a news article that is pretty good. It mentions depression in the last sentence though. In it it is talking about neuron genesis and the fact that right by the hipo-campus(?) which is charge of memories or something like that, that neurons are constantly being generated.

You can find this article at foxnews.com under the science heading. look for the Atombomb and the brain title.

Sorry if I kind of highjacked your thread as I have been trying to do a post about it but as usual to no avail.

good post Beaumont. and good replies.. I don't know that I can say that my depression has 'trigger's. I know for SURE that my panic disorder has triggers. I know what they are without a doubt and I try to avoid them. The thing is, I know that 'avoiding' them doesn't help me move forward. I am able to ' avoid the triggers'. Long story, just suffice it to say I am able to avoid them, so I don't have to fight through em..

did that make any sense at all?

Yes....When I am unable to make things better for those I depend on or who depends on me I startslipping pretty quickly into hopelessness and a period of depression.

yes, I have triggers that bring on a depressed mood.

Spending too much time alone makes my depression worse. Also, cold
rainy weather..I have been diagnosed with seasonal affective disorder
in addition to typical depression.

Used to. But the therapy, participation in DS; other stuff helped me to locate them, and break them all off. No more triggers, thakyaverramuch!

I think it is a progression: we accept that we have triggers, we work to identify them, we devise methods to avoid them, and finally we work through it so we can defeat our triggers.

Don't get me wrong, I believe that there are some triggers where the best we can hope for is to avoid them.

i don't know if this would be considered a trigger but when someone ask me how i am and i take the time to tell them and they clearly don't care and or cant understand but make it out as if it is simple saying things like well you shouldn't feel that way ..... it would always cause feelings of darkness, loneliness ,, a sense of hopelessness ,,, over time it became very easy to prevent this however recently the night in fact the night i made this account here on the forums i was in one of the darkest places i had ever been to say the least when you are in such a place rock bottom is an extensive climb upward i and it came out of no where it was the first time that i had thought that there must be a trigger i think for me finding these will be empowering

For me the depression gets worse when I feel rejected or I think I will be rejected. Also when my anxiety issues get worse, so does my depression which then make my anxiety issues worse. It is like a never ending merry go round. Ugh, kinda feeling that way right now.

My depression most definitely has triggers but not as bad as the ones from PTSD.

I do believe I have triggers that bring on or add to my depression.
sometimes I just wake up depressed sometimes I do have 'triggers' that bring it on later in day.
I never thought of the word triggers for it. but activate/add to it.
but I like triggers better.
most of the time I look at the good in my life sometimes that 'walks' me out of depression.

although I was thinking yesterday why is it called depressed ?
seems like it should b 'pressed' ..

..I don't know cowboy, depressed does mean to press down, to lower position. Sounds like the right word.

My anxiety seems to have triggers but I'm not really sure how it gets triggered but that anxiety cycle can cause my depression to spiral.

Sure! Music, mean, nasty people, a sad movie.

My depression has triggers. Most common is when I have conflict with other people. Conflict at work - coworkers that are mean and nasty. Customers that are mean and nasty. Even rude people when I am out shopping. It just becomes so tiring to have so much conflict to deal with.

So I think you are right that triggers exist for depression.

Have you found a way to deal with conflict and bullies?