[NOS-NOS]

So I was wondering if any of you have experienced this - being resensitized to a trigger (stimulus) after an extended period of non-exposure (weeks, months, e.t.c.).

Say something (or someone) in your environment sets you off into a funk and then you get kind of used to it but then you don't see or hear it for awhile and then when you do it sets you back into that funk.

I have experienced this today. Something set me into a weird place, where I felt as if my meds were going to stop working and anxiety crept in. Totally threw me off my equilibrium.

Anyone else have this happen to them?

[Mindinpieces]

I have sort of had something similar to this, many times things set me off then I sort of get into this strange comfortable auto pilot, so to speak, way of functioning. At those times I kid myself into thinking you are handling it etc. However when all of a sudden the same thing can happen on just any day and not be that different to what triggered me before and suddenly for whatever reason I react to that in an intense and extreme way. Sometimes I put this down to not really have been coping beforehand and just trying to muddle through which may appear to everyone else like I can cope but then they have to wonder when I react like that all of a sudden, it was because I could handle being constantly trigger, all those other times had built up in me and that time when I react bad, well that was my last straw that I couldn't handle.


Other time's however maybe something is different that if it had not been for that one thing I may have not been triggered and you have to try to understand that like many things sometimes they go good and other times they go bad... it's the same with being triggered in some sense or instances you may get triggered by that on one occasion and not another or you may have never been triggered by that thing before in life then one day for some reason it causes you to be triggered. Again this doesn't go for everything and it varies from person to person depending on that person and there source of what triggers them.

This is just my take on this and well I am not the best person for advice but hope may help you a little, wishing you all the best

Originally Posted by NOS-NOS

So I was wondering if any of you have experienced this - being resensitized to a trigger (stimulus) after an extended period of non-exposure (weeks, months, e.t.c.).

Say something (or someone) in your environment sets you off into a funk and then you get kind of used to it but then you don't see or hear it for awhile and then when you do it sets you back into that funk.

I have experienced this today. Something set me into a weird place, where I felt as if my meds were going to stop working and anxiety crept in. Totally threw me off my equilibrium.

Anyone else have this happen to them?

((((NOS)))) absolutely. The first thing that comes to mind...I haven't spoken with or seen two particular people in almost a year (zero contact), and I'd been doing so much better regarding that type of stress. A couple of months ago, I thought I saw their car on the freeway next to me and I started panicking. I was terrified. Even with DBT, I still felt enormous anxiety.

Also, just the thought of having a date and being alone with a man sends me into a full-blown anxiety attack. I cannot even think of it.

For me, I think that is part of the c-PTSD (and being re-traumatized)

[NOS-NOS]

So what is the answer if total stimulus aversion is out of the question?

[Miswimmy1]

Therapy. Exposure... CBT is a way to adjust to triggers.