((Living in Chaos)),

Yes, that is how I was so confused too. It is an individual challenge depending on an individual's personal history and what trauma/trauma's have taken place in their lives.
A way of understanding it is that with these trauma's a fracture took place, the individual still functioned not realizing that this fracture needed to heal. Because it never was healed, if too much "stress" took place, it could break, and that is what is going on with PTSD. It is a "stress" breakdown and it's finally time to take time out to finally "heal".

Right now you are very "sensitive" as is the case with any injury. It's just very different because it isn't something you can see, but, you are definitely feeling the sensitivity of the injury. Each person is different depending on what is involved with their personal stresses that they finally have to take time out to work through.

Each time you have a "trigger" take place that disables you, it isn't happening to punish you, it isn't happening to tell you that you are supposed to feed into it either. It is just telling you about something you need to pay attention to, talk about, and finally work through so you can "slowly" process whatever it is with "validation" more "resolve" and understanding of whatever it may be that hurt you that caused so much "stress" to you.