{"quotes":[{"text":"My Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) appeared to be caused by blood clots in the brain which had to be flushed out to cure it. The mystery was why I had the blood clots there, which recently was solved by the medical profession as I have a hole in my heart that creates them. It is estimated that 25% of the population have a hole in their heart and Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) may be one of the triggers for the onset of EHS in a person.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["asd","atrial","blood","brain","caused","clots","cure","defect","ehs","electromagnetic","estimated","flushed","heart","hole","hypersensitivity","medical","mystery","onset","person","population","profession","septal","triggers"],"id":36077,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Playing nice' comes naturally when our neuroception detects safety and promotes physiological states that support social behavior. However, pro-social behavior will not occur when our neuroception misreads the environmental cues and triggers physiological states that support defensive strategies. After all, 'playing nice' is not appropriate or adaptive behavior in dangerous or life-threatening situations. In these situations, humans - like other mammals - react with more primitive neurobiological defense systems. To create relationships, humans must subdue these defensive reactions to engage, attach, and form lasting social bonds. Humans have adaptive neurobehavioral systems for both pro-social and defensive behaviors.","author":"Stephen W. Porges","tags":["complex-ptsd","dangerous-people","defensive","distrust","fear","interpersonal-relationships","neurophysiology","polyvagal-theory","social","triggers","trust","unsafe-people"],"id":108844,"author_id":"Stephen+W.+Porges"},{"text":"The traumatic moment becomes encoded in an abnormal form of memory, which breaks spontaneously into consciouness, both as flashbacks during waking states and as traumatic nightmares during sleep. Small, seemingly insignificant reminders can also evoke these memories, which often return with all the vividness and emotional force of the original event. Thus, even normally safe environments may come to feel dangerous, for the survivor can never be assured that she will not encounter some reminder of the trauma.","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["flashbacks","memory","nightmares","ptsd","recovered-memories","repressed-memories","trauma","trauma-memories","trauma-memory","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatization","traumatized","triggers"],"id":115960,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"},{"text":"Emotion triggers action, good or otherwise.","author":"Pieter BF Swart","tags":["action","emotion","triggers"],"id":233613,"author_id":"Pieter+BF+Swart"},{"text":"Dissociative Identity Disorder is borne out of trauma. Many individuals who survive severe trauma will later experience marked anxiety, which may or may not relate to triggers from the original trauma. Individuals with DID are highly likely to have a great deal of anxiety.","author":"Karen Marshall","tags":["anxiety","anxiousness","dissociative","dissociative-disorder","dissociative-identity-disorder","mpd","multiple-personality-disorder","trauma","triggers"],"id":243967,"author_id":"Karen+Marshall"},{"text":"I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save me, to make it all better. I thought that the hardest part of a loving, mutually healing relationship would be showing my vulnerable, raw spots to a person, even though I'd been hurt so many times before. This has not been the hardest part. The actual hardest part has been realizing that no one, no matter how compassionate and kind they are, will say the perfect things always. Myself included. The hardest part has been learning to communicate what I need, to hear what others need, to tell others how to tell me what they need. Intimacy takes communication. A lot of it.We all have triggers. I don't know your triggers, and you don't know mine. No matter how much I love or trust you, you cannot possibly know exactly the words I need to hear, the words I don't want to hear, and the way I like to be touched.And how strange that we expect these things of each other. How strange (and self-sabotaging) that we refuse to get into relationships and friendships with people unless they treat us in just that perfect way. We've been raised to want fairy tales. We've been raised to wait for flawless saviors to rescue us. But the savior isn't flawless and the savior is not coming. The savior is you. The savior is still learning. The savior is never done learning. The savior is a human being.Forget perfect. Forget flawless. And start speaking your truth. Start speaking what you want and how you want it. And start asking and listening, really listening, to what the people around you say.Maybe, then, we will stop abandoning and hurting each other. Maybe, then, there's hope for us.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["abandonment","communication","emotional-triggers","emotions","empathy","inspirational","intimacy","listening","love","relationships","self-awareness","self-love","triggers","vulnerability"],"id":258502,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"Look for the why behind your feelings of hurt and pain because they signal where we should make some changes.","author":"Nanette Mathews","tags":["healing","hurt","inspirational","pain","triggers"],"id":337592,"author_id":"Nanette+Mathews"},{"text":"It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["carnage","gun-control","massacres","murder","shootings","terrorism","triggers"],"id":338675,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.","author":"Carolyn Spring","tags":["dissociated","flashback","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","trauma","traumatized","trigger","triggers"],"id":392235,"author_id":"Carolyn+Spring"},{"text":"This is the moment I realize that our traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkest pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["broken","crow","hell","love","mafia","trauma","triggers"],"id":405118,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}