I actually find some of the commercials more triggering. I imagine that some of the crime dramas could be triggering for me, but I avoid them and they can't really sneak up on me.. but the commercials are everywhere! They have these ones to try to convince people not to smoke, with people already suffering from disease desperately gasping for air... I can't take it. When they come on, I'm already so familiar with them that I tense right up. I know they're trying to get a serious message across, but they're traumatizing. Maybe it's because that's what it sounded like when my best friend was dying... I don't think it's that though -- they're so realistic that I feel like I'm gasping for air.

Also, those same commercials often have a shaming tone to them; I don't even smoke but the tone is so overwhelming that I feel shamed. Probably reminds me of the tone of every horrible adult who shamed me as a child for not knowing the perfect thing to do at every moment and juncture of my growth.