Name your Trigger Points

[geoff]

Hi Everyone, interested to know what your trigger points are, and knowing the warning signs that may foreshadow a relapse, can help you to avoid it.

These may differ from day to day and in different situations but each one is important to know.

-moving house is never good for me, and that's just for starters.

All the best.

Geoff.

[geoff]

Hello Missep, thanks for your reply, it's being told that you're wrong in not noticing it and why didn't you see it, but we all have our own different approaches when logging on, and person A isn't the same as person B.

It's just like when you have a relapse, some people will say to you, 'why did you get depressed over that'.

Geoff.

[Bibbetyboo]

Hi Geoff,

I feel this post will help me a lot tonight just to name a few of my skeletons.

Triggers for me are old flames contacting me, honestly thats a bad one. They’re in the past for a reason.
Being late for anything
Mess
loud repetitive noises
Baby crying / children crying
Unwarranted advice or suggestion always makes me anxious that there is a hidden message (my nana use to be ambiguous like that)
People being overly friendly, especially woman because I’m often a target for sociopaths being an empathic loner
or telling people about my triggers / fears without anonymity because i honestly feel if i say it out loud the devil will hear it and use it against me later on this is also something that has happened in past relationships.

[quirkywords]

Thanks zgroff for this thread.

my troubleI don’t know what triggers until it has and then I am not sure why.

After the fires I can get triggered by things I never knew upset me.

[geoff]

Hello Bibbetyboo, sometimes overly friendly people when you first meet them, you need to stand back and ask yourself why, sure that may be their personality but we need to be precautious, they could only be after something we have or want to know information that we hold to ourselves, and once they know, we don't see them again.

Hi Quirky, there are times when we are affected by our triggers but then there are other times when we are able to ward them off, or as our personality readjusts in overcoming our mental illness, they don't affect us anymore and most definitely there are situations when something affects us in a negative way, that usually wouldn't, may be because suddenly we are aware of it and what may happen.

Take care.

Geoff.