i feel like that all the time....i am pretty much on my own ......sooooo its hard for me to understand anything at all...in fact i didnt even know what a trigger meant until i came here...and then it all made sense....what i tend to do is when i first start to trigger i feel like im hanging on the edge of cliff....sometimes i can keep myself from falling and getting full blown into it....or i can sorta veer off alittle....while i have this on the edge of cliff feeling i try really fast to think of what happened(because it doesnt give me much time to do much thinking lol) like go figure..one of my triggers is chores...not really chores..but more if people are dictating chores to me....or looking at me expecting me to know what im supposed to do...kinda thing...when it first started ...i started getting that on the edge of a cliff feeling.....now i just try to stay away from those situations by never letting the house get dirty where the head of the house hold starts dictating to us what she demands to have done...or starts staring at us like we are supposed to get up and know what to do.....i must be babbling on ....like a fool....but just talking about the above mentioned subject is starting to make me....um yea....id better go...hope i helped you out .....alittle at least....just try to view the scenerio and what happened...and when something comes across you....and you feel sharp intake of breathe then you know....alright ttyl ....love, inny