I understand your frustration. I think you have done well to recognize you were in the middle of being triggered. You were able to stop yourself. I think we try to hard to find what causes it. We have been trained you have to know what caused the problem to fit it. My therapist is trying to get me to stop worrying about what caused it and instead reward yourself for recognizing it and stopping it. Then focus on what you are going to do to stop your from sinking into that "bad" rest of the day. Don't beat yourself up and don't worry about what caused it. You may never know. You have done well here and I think your frustration is getting the best of you.

I understand your frustration. I think you have done well to recognize you were in the middle of being triggered. You were able to stop yourself. I think we try to hard to find what causes it. We have been trained you have to know what caused the problem to fit it. My therapist is trying to get me to stop worrying about what caused it and instead reward yourself for recognizing it and stopping it. Then focus on what you are going to do to stop your from sinking into that "bad" rest of the day. Don't beat yourself up and don't worry about what caused it. You may never know. You have done well here and I think your frustration is getting the best of you.

I agree with our crazy canuk. The further I get in my healing, the less I worry about the mechanics of it. Just recognize the trigger and work with it. Ironically, the less I worry about the mechanics, the more easily I think I understand them, but they are what they are whether I understand them or not.

Thank you for your support and kind words. It's an excellent suggestion to concentrate in stopping it instead of analyzing when or why.

I slept and hopefully today's a new day :-)

I have suffered from PTSD associated depression and sometimes, even though I take my medications and go to therapy a trigger comes out of nowhere.
In the past 3-5 years I kind of know when one is coming and either take some medication or take a nap. I just wish I could describe the actual feeling, but I can't.
Same with anxiety or panic attacks, but my medication really helps to keep that under control.
Hope today is a better day than yesterday.

yes - I can relate to all the posts on this thread.

I know reading or hearing about crimes or tragedies committed by pathologically disordered people (the crimes where the perpetrator has no value whatsoever for the victim's life) is a trigger. I avoid newspapers and news and try to stop conversations where someone is trying to tell me about it.

And, also, I can sense being triggered and sometimes I do not even worry about what the trigger is - but I will sense the frantic, flight feeling inside and that's why I don't go anywhere without a supplement, rhodiola. It is an adaptogen and everyone I've shared with that tried it, too, has had the same amazing results with that panic, anxiety, flight feeling. It works way better than xanax for me - because for xanax to work, the amount I have to take to take the edge off of the anxiety is the amount that will also make me have to sleep.

Jenny, I have to do that the majority of the time - because I simply can't identify them. However, the purpose, for me, in identifying them is to 'process' them - which takes the venom out of the sting, so to speak (EMDR). If I can diffuse the emotion connected to that trigger, it won't keep triggering me . . .