What Triggers You? Share Your Experience

my neighbor and I were just discussing this yesterday. His exes mother is living with him and it's very draining his energy.

and I live near an airport, a train station, and a major highway. I'm always hearing something screaming!! I'll honestly say, with so much noise I've had to learn to ignore some of it so I guess it has helped in a sense, but the sound of a loud muffler still sends me through the roof.

o wow, I can't imagine how I would feel if storms were my trigger, I get my best sleep during storms. I usually don't even know something happened til I wake up and the outside is destroyed. People can never believe it but I sleep through tornadoes, hurricanes, electric thunderstorms, and it's the best sleep I can possibly get. I feel like everything is ok in a storm.... It's so funny how different things can mean different things to different people.

hello

yeah I don't like being touched unless I okay the contact. Lucky for me, I don't have enough people in my life to have to worry about that. But being a product of rape and molestation, I don't like for people to put their filthy hands on me. They don't care about me, so why touch me?

Another one I somehow forgot is fireworks and certain dates/anniversaries of course.

when I was growing up, I used to get beat pretty good at home. There was a certain stick my mom kept behind the pantry. Every time that door opened it made a clicking sound. It was the only way sometimes to know that I was getting ready to be beaten. It couldn't been 1000 elephants in the house and I would recognize the sound of that door immediately. I used to freeze up, shaking, feeling like I had to pee myself. Seconds later, the flogging would commence. I've forgiven her for the way she used to beat me, but it took years, long after I was grown and gone for me to stop hearing the click of that pantry door and stop freezing to it. Imagine being a 20+ yr old woman, dressed to impress, on a date or out with friends, everyone having a good time and out of nowhere you freeze, shaking for a few seconds and always having to go to the bathroom next. I never explained to anyone what was happening. There were even times I jumped out my sleep as an adult, thinking I heard the door open. That's how it used to happen sometimes. It took me getting into a more abusive domestic relationship for me to stop hearing the click of that door but it was jumping out the pot into the fire. Now I have a whole new set of completely different triggers that are worse.

I can relate to that more than you would know.

money is definitely a trigger lol. Or at least the lack there of. Poverty can bring out the most savage beast. Lol

I have a few too, but I think the greatest are lies and loud noises.