How to help a triggered person.
“Triggered”. One of the most overused words. I had someone tell me they’d been “triggered” because their children wouldn’t do the dishes. No, that’s “frustrated “ and you can control that outcome. “ Reward reversal”. If they don’t do the work, they lose a reward. No drama, no screaming just natural consequences. When a person suffering from PTSD is triggered, it’s as if someone part of past trauma has resurfaced and the person is bombarded by the feelings of said trauma. A friend of mine was in a car accident and nobody from their family came to check on or support them They actually turned their phones off. Yes, that’s cruel in itself. When you’re a person that’s suffered from abandonment and trauma a situation like that “triggers “ that person to relive every time they were abandoned. My friend went into a trauma response and assumed the families response was the same as they’d experienced previously.. They stopped speaking to my friend and ga...