[troubledarling]

Anybody find something specific that triggers there anxiety, depression or whatever unfortunate distress your battling... And brings it to a whole new level? For me after many years of low self worth it doesn't take much, for example: I was just about to work out and my mother walked in and says "oh your about to workout, you do look like your getting fatter." And walked away, i dont think she realized she just crushed my spirt but i had lot the desire. That worthless feeling crept back in and I just set there for a while. What are some of your triggers?

[IowaFarmGal]

I can't take a Pdoc putting a prescription slip in my hand. It caused flashbacks and panic.

[Shifte]

So many things i cant start, Movies do it alot for me.

-Any time I'm alone too much and start realizing and thinking about how lonely I always am brings out my depression.

-Anything to do with the hospital may bring up my anxiety; especially knowing that someone else is in there.

[gnat]

I've discovered the childhood abuse forums on this site cause me to have major panic attacks so I no longer go there. I've also has to hide certain people on Facebook because they do it too.

Country music, stale cigarette smell, and the smell of cheap booze cause depression in me.

[healingme4me]

Originally Posted by troubledarling

Anybody find something specific that triggers there anxiety, depression or whatever unfortunate distress your battling... And brings it to a whole new level? For me after many years of low self worth it doesn't take much, for example: I was just about to work out and my mother walked in and says "oh your about to workout, you do look like your getting fatter." And walked away, i dont think she realized she just crushed my spirt but i had lot the desire. That worthless feeling crept back in and I just set there for a while. What are some of your triggers?

I am so sorry she said that She has no right, making such crude remarks.

For me, going to the courthouse. As a distant past triggering memory, I am reminded of the time, my mom had to take my dad to court for child support and back-pay child support. ((mind you dad, kicked me out of the home, as a teen, sent me to live with my mom, and just refused to pay. I believe he, literally, still 'owes' me a pair of sneakers, which he said he'd buy for me, for one school year)) Well, the fall out from that court event, was a most trying ordeal. That created a rift between myself and my dad. We only reconciled after my first born was a year old.

The more recent trigger for me, in the courthouse. Was when I was put up on the stand, at the extension hearing, for the very first restraining order I took out, on my exh(then husband). He's pushed me, into a bookcase on our anniversary, then...well...anyways.

He brought this pitbull of an attorney, and then she went on and on about my dying mom, and tried to paint a very unpleasant picture of me. And this restraining order was dropped, and I had to let him back into the home, and I just wanted to die.

So, now, I certainly, take my anti-anxiety med, anytime I go to court. Can't stop shaking otherwise.

[AbsurdBlackBear]

Not feeling like I have anyone to talk to for a while tends to take my depression to a whole other level. Also getting off the phone with my ex when she calls me triggers it.