Triggered . What does that mean?
“Triggered”.What a misunderstood word. 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 shot a gun and the person is bombarded by past trauma. I was in a car accident and nobody from my family came to check on or support me. 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 experience every time they were abandoned and in trauma. I said something unkind to my family that I perceived was reality and the consequences were unreal. They stopped speaking to me and judged me harshly. Which reinforced the anxiety and proved that I truly was abandon...