I'm going to go way out on a limb here and say that the statement is very true. It isn't an absolute and those who escape the cycle are so fortunate.

Triggers are difficult. They are actually everyday things, words, scents, objects, situations that affect the individual because of the individual's experiences. When I am triggered, that is about me. It isn't about the person who innocently supplied what triggers me.

For me a word can be a trigger; or an innocent television commercail, a movie ad, a joke, an object... It's not avoidable but something for me to learn to deal with, because it is about me, my feelings/memories/panic that get stirred up.

I don't think anyone intends or hopes to trigger me, so I could never blame that person when it happens. It isn't happening outside of me, but within me.

if they're ok.