Tackling Triggers
Tackling Triggers
Being ‘triggered’ is something we often hear out in the world, on socials and in TV shows. It’s quite an over-used colloquialism in these spaces. But, in a psychological sense, triggers are most often associated with traumatic events and diagnoses of PTSD and Complex-PTSD and they can be super problematic to navigate. Triggers are reminders of past traumas. This reminder can cause us to feel overwhelming sadness, anxiety or panic. Triggers can also then cause us to experience vivid pictures of memories of the traumatic event – flashbacks, making us feel that we are actually reliving the worst of those moments.