Beaumont doesn't seem to be replying, but the way I deal with conflict and bullies is I give them right back whatever abuse they're giving me. It usually doesn't go well. They're angry, I'm angry. Then I have to fixate on something I love, exercise a lot, and the anger evaporates.

hmmm...I don't know if my depression has triggers, other than me, myself, and I...but....

I do know that my ANXIETY has triggers...other than me, myself and I... ...the biggest one of which is PEOPLE... I don't like people...and I don't think people like me, but I don't really care about that...but people, especially stupid people...and just regular people...really trigger my anxiety...to the point that I have severe Panic attacks when I am around a lot of people or in public areas...just hearing people laugh, or talk loudly, or anything of that sort triggers my anxiety and can lead to a panic attack if I don't get myself out of the situation quick enough...

also, people I love and care about, like my husband or son, they can easily and unknowingly trigger my anxiety...simply by asking me a simple question...that's really weird even to me...but it comes down to me having to be in control all of the time...and right now, I really am not in control...as a matter of fact... I am spinning out of control!...have been for a long time now...and it's only getting worse!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe this all explains why for most of us, our depression doesn't really improve with medications. If medications do have any effectiveness, it isn't for long, and it isn't any better than the results would be for placebos. What we need is to get a handle on the causes of our depression.

Hmmm...you may have something there Beaumont...

I'm going to marinate on that thought for a minute...

Marinating...N...NO...NOW!.....

yes, my trigger can be dealing with absolute dumbasses all fucking day, every fucking day

Triggers? Absolutely! Almost any situation that involves social interaction such as parties, etc. I'm a classic introvert. Don't like small talk, social situations such as parties don't stimulate me, they wear me down. I need to get away and recharge. I love being alone. Having the house to myself. Traveling alone on business. Doing things alone. When I want, what I want, whenever I want. Plus, with depression, seeing people enjoy themselves, laugh, talk incessantly, have fun, magnifies the fact I can't feel that. So yeah...there are some triggers

dang in his hands, I could not' have said it better myself

triggers have been mostly related to trauma however most with trauma have ptsd or some trauma related disorder that one main symptom is depression,,, ,,,

i am to tired and not feeling wellenough to read all the coments tonight so i will read them a nother time i do have trigers .............i think ................it seames to be when bad things hapenthis last depreshion hapened because my daughted and son were not gettign along and she wanted me and my husband to take her side and we told her we were not going to take eneyones side they were growen up and could look after there owen problems we didnt need to get inbetween and our son never asked that of us ...........so after that she caled me up yelling and screaming and saying very hurtfull things and kiked us out of her life and we were not aloud to see her children or phone her or see them eney more that was it it was all over between us .........well i just took a dive it was like i jumpt off a clif my husband had to take me to the doctors and the put me on meds and i am still trying to clime out of this hole at least i feel like i have my head above water but i feal very frajal .....................now if i were to tell my daughter that that is the reason i am depresed she would never belive me ..............and over the years we did so much for her you would thing she would at least take that into concderation so this went on for at least a year and than she started to let us talk on the phone with the kids .................and it is just in the last 3 years that she is realy talking to us my heart was broken ................and i still dont feel we are ware we were befor this all started .................................for the rest of the time it is like my migrains i always have a little depreshion like i always have a little pain it just gets better and worse ................if my husband goes to the trap camp and i am home alone i will just cry all while he isgone so i go to my sons and hang out with them they have two daughters and we hang out together and i am fine no crying ......................so i think being lonely makes it worse .............this is a interesting discushion so i will come back to it if i can rember lol .......................god bless

YES, I have many. I've earned to identify them, almost as soon as they happen, so that I can do some preparation and maybe even repairs on myself before they wallop me again.

Rejection is a biggie.

Two-faced, conniving, lying never-admitting-they-did-anything-wrong people trigger me.

Being accused of something I didn't do---that's pretty bad.

Being massively under-appreciated is another.

Family holidays are difficult for long & complex reasons.

I work on this stuff constantly, so that someday, it won't have as much power over me. But sometimes, there is nothing one can do to control external forces very much---and it happened to me again in a big way in my new doctor's office, yesterday. He unfortunately took a nasty tone with me almost from the start, one of lecturing and interrupting me when I was endeavouring to be succinct and clear---it was exasperating and very discouraging. Yup. It was awful. (So much for my progress on finding a humane MD.) Was pretty dejected and even angry for the remainder of the afternoon. Was just plain exhausted by dinnertime.

Crawled off to bed feeling very low.

But, well, every day is a new day, and there are lots more doctors out there---so, my next foray into that uncaring world, I'll try and be a lot better prepared.

That's about all we can do. Pick up and carry on.

Yes, there are depression triggers. Depression does not happen by itself. something triggers it to kick in and in some cases, triggers it to get worse.

It's a cause and effect. Depression is an effect so it has a cause ( trigger ) for it.

My depression trigger is isolation. I am a people person. The more less contact with others, the worse my depression gets. My depression gets worse if I have alot to deal with while already depressed.

I do believe that in some cases it has triggers. In my case, i am not so sure it has a trigger as it is I choose to let it get its claws in me. Mine is psychological but even with that, it is at my core so even per therapists, i will be haunted by it forever, so i guess the trigger is me thinking about it. I am trans and being born when i was (late 70's) the world shuned gay and lesbians, so being trans was even more hated. So at a very early age, i learned that i was born to a world that hated me for the face of having been born. Things have changed in the last almost 4 decades, and it is becoming more acceptible that i was born, however my latest run was reading the hateful comments about a trans person in the news. I have a thick skin, but they cut through me. This of course caused all my own scars from growing up to get loose and now I have to work to clean up the mess :P I don't know if that counts as a trigger, but the hateful comments did cause a reaction that let something i carefully control get away from me.

I wouldn't say it's a huge trigger, but when certain events go by...birthdays, stuff like that...and I let myself think of all the stuff I haven't done since the last one BECUASE of the depression...if I sit and stew with those thoughts, I can trigger myself...but thank God I'm (very slowly lmao) learning to stop the thoughts before they can do their dirty work :P

My guns have triggers, but I do not.

Yes. Ive been doing ok but got triggered by a conversation witha fam memeber. Now im triggering bad thats why i came online today. My trigger is feeling inadequate. Im sure it has to do with past abuse as a child physical/emotional abuse.