Absolutely. Depression triggers are as unique as the personalities that deal with them. Everyone's are different.

My depression triggers are usually songs, movies and seasons. I associate everything with emotions.

I am a strange bird.

i have never realy ever thought of finding out if i had trigers to my depreshion and when i tried to answer the post i could not think of eney except bad thing hapening ...........i couldent think of things i could try to avoied so i am going to go back and read all the posts and see what i find there and realy think about when i was worse why i was worse .......................i know when i ws young i ws depresed becasusei felt i was alone here on this earth because my parents were not conected to me so that ment no one was .............i could feel things off them but they couldent do the same with me ....................................later i didnt understand some people who would hurt others and not evenn know what damage they were realy doing so i would always make frends with these hurt people and i would take ther pain on my self ................................later still there are things i cant talk about most of you wouldent belive in it eneway ................then.the loss of the love of my life ...........the loss of a child ......................and then .................a hole bunch of lies around a very hard time i went through came to the surfice and that time i endedup in the hospital ....................this time it is hard to put on paper but our daughter kiked us out of her life and we were not loud to see or talk to the grand children or call her or go to the house she wanted nothing to do with us and it was all because we would not pick sides between her and her brother ...........we told her we can pick side between our children that they were all olde enough to handel there one bisness they didnt need us inbetween .................so because we wouldent go on her side we were not to see them and i just took a dive and it has been 8 years i have been climing out of thet hole and now i feel i have my head above ater we are aloud back into her life and can see the grandchildren but i still dont fel out relation ship with out daughter is the same yet and i dont know if it ever will be ..........and the sad thing is if i told her that she ment so much to me that when she kiked me out of her life i went into a deap depreshion she wouldent belive me ............................i gess i do know what my trigers are .............................god bless .............................this has made me very sad i feel like crying now .................i think i will lay dowen for a bit ................

Strangely, I can't listen to music at all now without becoming depressed. I am thinking about deleting all of the music files on my laptop. I'm not sure how it happened, but now all music is a deep depression trigger for me.

I agree with this 100%. I became clinically depressed while being in an abusive marriage. I had no history of depression before that. And even now...i become depressed from any memories, or things that happen that remind me of the situation.

Agree with a lot of these statements

Yes.

What Triggers my depressions is when other people make me feel stupid, then I get afraid to make even one mistake, even though everyone human and all can make mistakes, I just think it very unfair when everyone else is entitled to make a mistak, but if I slip up even one time, people seem to hold it against me and treat me like I dumb, and then it real brings me down, when I dont intend to go into such a state with my depression

JustoneKittty I here you, I end up feeling inadequate nearly all the time and it so cna get me down, the time that people bring me down and then I having to get back up again,it gets so very draining and very isolating and family, other people I just wanna be listened to understood , liked appriciated for who I am, not for who people want me to be, their own personal doormat, which I dont want to be anymore

my triggers too are when I drink alchohol or otherwisse self medicate , when I think of my mentall y ill alcoholic mother who is deceased or the poverty , mostly lossses due to a very horrific chidlhood,,, I was in the twelve stets and take meds that in and of itself is huge,and i plan to do it more,,,,, but moved to a new town did not know anyone and starting over is not easy the loneliness has brought it on ,, and a loss ,, so it seems as long as we live we will have triggers it is the adaptive coping responses that help the most,,,, ie gym AA med s therapy social interaction forgiving praying ,, it is when I isolate and drink and or medicate in an unhealthy way that the demons come out,, AA taught me take an action step do the right thing many in AA got a relief from getting the stuff out of their system there are many process addicitons that are tiggers when we cease them ie caretaking shopping unhealthy relationships too much tv so so many things and now aging is a new challenge since I cane down the chute I have been challenged since family history of alchohol pills depression and dysfunction I am sure glad jesus HP gave me music and teaching those were my life savers when that pity pot starts to wear a ring around my butt I play music but mostly look at the pictures of my students ,,,, over the years and wonder how a person with every odd stacked free lunch living in squalor ,, etc got a break in the school band who knew that is my 2 cents find something any thing you can to put the demon down art music what ever it takes a support group for bereavement at 58 I am going back to teaching with Gods help plesse ask for your support,,, Bmw

ps GLBT rainbow trauma recovery room ,,, founder gay transgender proud and we got DOMA overturned OH HAPPY DAY

Yes, definitely. I think it's hard to distinguish between PTSD and depression. Triggers can be subtle situations, people, places or things which remind me of past periods of distress.

For me it is certain people, family, at work, that I repeatedly end up feeling depressed, anxious, traumatized or depressed around.

Sounds like a duck? It really is trauma but too hard to classify as true PTSD. If I have the energy I try to develop strategies to offset the trauma if possible.

For example if being in a room with two people who leave me out of a conversation I will try to get up and leave the area. If someone says or does something offensive I will ask them to repeat what they said or gently confront them.
If someone takes attitude with me, I will change mine to mirror the change in their attitude.
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Enough ranting...Yes, there are definitely triggers. How do people manage these?
And as far as the laughing happy people, when I am depressed it is more than a trigger it is like a thunder clap. My hairdresser is so cheery and upbeat with her full life and is completely out with the fact that she hates depressed people....she's becoming a trigger.
Enough ranting and highjacking the topic...

I most definitely have triggers. Beingcalled "Crazy" is one of them. My son does it all the time, he knows it will send me into a spin & cry all night.max has been used to call me names all the time. I can't take it anymore.I just think that is just so cool to call someone in my condition that true because I am very depressed.