I had a thought, look out, and prepare to be "SHOCKED" or bored. This could be posted several places but since I've started here, here goes.
I might be intellectualizing and rationalizing to protect myself and my present wants for whatever convoluted reason, I'm not sure. However, I wonder whether I and others have inadvertently, been set up, and/or are setting our selves up, by making a big complicated and loaded thing of these "rules". The concept of triggers, either triggering or being triggered by words etc, is sort of new to me. I came here to work on my depression. I had previously tried to believe that it's what we think of what others say and do that controls our emotions, not what's said and done. This is of course complicated by the issues of, verbal abuse, etc. but might not the "RULES" tend to hyper-sensitize some of us to the idea that we might "trigger" someone, while hyper-sensitizing others to be "triggered"? -downsolong

'Just because you're hypersensitive doesn't mean the situation doesn't make it worse'