One trigger that hit me one time I really remember was watching a movie where the lady knew stuff that was harmful to the other person. When she went to get into her car it blew up. This took my thoughts back tovthe morning after I caught that the home care person had OD'ed my mom on her morphine & I had my mom taken to the hospital & had filed a report against her with APS & had a confrontation later with 2 other people associated with her that I found in my mom's hospital room. I had gone back to sleep that night at my mom's house & planned on driving my mom's car to the police station that morning to file a report against the home care person with them. I remembered walking out to my moms car that morning with the fear that this home care person's husband who supposedly was an auto mechanic had planted a bomb in my mon's car to shut me up. All illogical thinking in reality but with the traumashevhad put me through the previous week it did not seem impossible. Put the key in the door....nothing....started the ignition....nothing. I started to breath again then my thought went to the break line being cut.but that hadnt happened.

So when the bomb went off in the movie blowing up the car, for me it sent a shock through my body just like itvwould have ifthere had REALLY been a bomb in my mom's car.

Triggers are good at causing flashbacks. My first year having thanksgiving dinner without being alone took me back to the last thanksgiving dinner I had with my mom, only a week before the actual trauma hit with the home care person but it was the meal that made me realize just how seriously ill my mom actually was as she had been denying any problems & keeping people away from seeing her.

Triggers are different for everyone depending on their own personal experiences & traumas they have lived through. Its difficult because what is a trigger for one isnt for another.

Even with all the suicide attempts I had, the talk of suicide doesnt effect me as a trigger...so it is difficult to say what will or wont be a trigger & sometimes the context its talked about in can make the difference also.