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Originally Posted by Claritytoo
Thank you all for being there it was important tonight. I was losing it. I get that switching might have been my response to triggers and so I thought it was the same thing. I will try to ask her why she wanted to be out while the sound was happening. I still do not have a clear understanding in my head of the difference between switching and triggering. My t emailed me also to help me to calm down. I am ok now but that's because I switched. The confusion in my mind was too much so I switched. I will read this tomorrow because I won't remember it in the morning. I hope I take it well. Thanks again.
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Originally Posted by Claritytoo
I still do not have a clear understanding in my head of the difference between switching and triggering.
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maybe this will help...when a person is allergic to flowers they sneeze...
flowers is the trigger and sneeze is the action/reaction....
when a person hears a loud sound they dissociate....
the loud sound is the trigger. dissociate is the action/reaction.
when a person dissociates (feels numb, spacey, disconnected, switches into alters) it is an action/reaction to a trigger (something that is causing the person to feel dissociates.)
using example from your post.......
confusion in your mind was too much so you switched
confusion in your mind is the trigger and switched is the reaction/action
the fact that one is a reaction/action to the other is the difference between the two.