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Originally Posted by Inedible
It sounds like you have an idea of what triggering is. As for the rest of your post, it feels like I am missing large parts of the story.
A trigger is like the preset buttons on your radio. The button gets pushed and the radio station plays. The difference is that it is an emotional reaction rather than a radio station. How you choose to respond to being triggered is a separate matter.
Usually when a person is triggered, the actual danger is not present. It is in the past. The fear and anger is real, but it isn't helpful. It is a maladaptive response which brings its own problems.
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For all my life I have switched in order to protect us. If something caused fear we would switch to someone who wasn't affected by the triggering thing. That is what I thought it meant to be triggered. Why would my young one come out if the sound she heard reminded her of being abused. Why wouldn't she hide? I can't grasp the reasoning. If what you are saying is that every time a smell or sound or place brought back bad memories of abuse and I would than switch to the one who suffered that abuse, I don't know what I would do with that. Is that what triggering means?