You are right Skybark. You wont always know what the exact trigger may be cause all trigger can be different from the next.

What you said makes perfect sense and I agree with you.

Some people don't know why something tiggered them. That is what it was like for me, i'd get triggered then confusion would set in because I'd ask myself "why was that a trigger?" Sometimes I wouldn't understand it, other times it makes perfect sense.

I have a certain way that I write down triggers.. I do something like this:

What was I doing?
What the trigger was..
What was I thinking while this occured
etc. I wrote this down I think when I had a trigger, and I wrote what I brought into my psychiatrist... about a city triggering me because of my ex....

I question myself, figure out where I was when it happened, why I think it happened , what the trigger was, and what I did about it. If I do that whenever I have one even if it's not related to my trauma it all pretty much comes together like a puzzle....

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