So I'm just going to use myself as an example. Would my wife and I fighting be considered a trigger since every time we fight I go into a "manic" phase to where I feel like I could rip the head off of an elephant with my bare hands, slamming doors, punching walls, doing things that I normally wouldnt do?

I've only been to one therapy session but he told me to picture my son in the worst possible way immaginable, in a hospital bed dying of cancer and him asking me to tell him he'll be OK and relate that to me getting mad over something petty, I'm assuming that's what you're talking about. Basically I'm unsure that I'm bipolar. Almost in denial