Triggers symptoms

Lately I have been paying attention to what triggers my symptoms, such as hallucinations and fears. I noticed stress and lack of sleep really make me a mess.

What are triggers for other people?

For me, stress is a big one. Mental stress and physical stress. Lack of sleep, but also increased pain. Depressed mood, and also anxiety.

Anxiety and depressed mood trigger me as well

Lack of sleep makes me go through hell.

Lack of sleep, busy surroundings, stress and talk of certain subjects.

Stress and pain, and it does not always have to be my own in the sense that it stresses me greatly -- some people have said I care too much -- whenever someone else is stressed or in pain.

Stress, sleep and past traumas trigger me into delusional thinking patterns and/or mood episodes.

Stress is a major trigger for me..I can't work or hold a job because of it..
Being in crowded places can cause a meltdown as well..
Anxiety is a trigger too..I guess these can all be categorized as stress if you break them down to the bare bones..

I'm the same way I can't work due to my schizoaffective and panic/anxiety and dissociation. Been disabled since 2006. I keep busy reading, chatting on paltalk, and bmx bike riding when its not winter. I have two cats I play with too and love on. I know where you are coming from. You are not alone.

social isolation, sleeping too little or too much, stress, too much coffee--these things are definite triggers.

I think dealing with my community in which I'm highly stimgatized is often a trigger. You hear "mental patient," you hear "schizophrenic," it sinks in. Then I pray and get the strength to rethink it, think about myself in a more positive light.

The mental health clinic can be a nightmare, because I'm now perceived as an "uppity" patient, etc. I guess "mental patients" are expected to be docile and know "our place," etc.

My personal hygiene suffers bad and sometimes my marriage because I don't want to even be around him. I sleep less and eat more...shockingly!

Being put under any kind of pressure, for example I am completely unable to hold down a job because small things get on top of me so much that I start having breakdowns when I get home from work. Difficulties in my relationship can cause me to become extremely paranoid and delusional which is very distressing, stress and of course when I stop taking my meds.

My symptoms feed on each other. I get manic, and I start to spike, and then I can't sleep. After two weeks of poor sleep my psychotic symptoms start to crank up. Both these symptoms make it hard to concentrate or do anything useful. At the same time, stress causes my symptoms to explode, especially the psychotic symptoms. My father died just a few days ago, and I've been listening to ongoing voices saying that I killed him, that he died because of my "bad thoughts," that his soul is in Hell because of me, that he is in Heaven pissing down on me, etc. Interestingly, physical stress doesn't seem to trigger me. I am a hiker, and it is not unusual for me to hike ten or eleven miles at a time, or even more. This makes me tired, but it doesn't fire my symptoms. In fact, during exercise, and for a while afterward, I feel pretty good. Physical exercise reduces the symptoms to some extent, or at least makes me feel more capable of dealing with them. I'd recommend walking a few miles a day, to anyone with mental illness. It may help you and certainly won't hurt.