AOW Trigger Chart
AOW Trigger Chart
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Due to the phenominal recording abilities of the human mind, when something arises in the present that reminds you of a past event, you may feel the feelings associated with the past event. Triggers have a powerful emotional charge, and it can feel as if the event were reoccuring again. We call the present day events triggers because they trigger the emotions associated with the trauma. Triggers work even with unconsious or subconsious memories.
The members of Aftermath of war have tried to complete a comprehensive trigger chart. Understanding and managing triggers is vital to the recovery process.
All people, whether they are trauma survivors or not, have certain triggers to which they react emotionally. However, you as a trauma survivor, have an additional response that makes understanding and managing your reactions both more difficult and more complicated. When you respond to a trigger, your response is not purely emotional. Your adrenal glands also respond. Their response,which is out of your controlmay cause you to react in ways that you later access is not in your best interests.
Having triggers, or reacting to them, does not mean you are crazy or defective. However, when you are blind to what you are feelings and why you are feeling it, you may be driven to react in ways that do not serve you well.
Some common reactions to trigger situations
*anger or rage
*isolating yourself or overworking
*self condemnation
*increased cravings for food, alcohol, or drugs
*increased flashbacks
*self mutilation
*depression
*self hatred
*suicidal or homicidal thoughts
*increased physical pain (headaches, backaches)
* activation of a chronic medical condition (increased blood sugar if you're diabetic, increased blood pressure
if you suffer from hypertension, recurrance of bladder infections if you are prone to bladder problems, etc.
I hope to teach survivors more about their triggers and how to recognize them, more information will be added periodically. Please feel free to use the information to provide a trigger chart for your family members. They need to understand and recognize your triggers too. You deserve to recover.
Trigger chart , some examples
Trigger My reaction Traumatic memory
Someone, an authority figure, anger,desire to fight back,desire to run away It reminds me of taking
tells me to do something in a instead of hitting the person or having to hide orders from that CO
disrespectful,rough, my rage. who sent us all out
or impersonal tone of voice to be killed so he
could look good.
AOW Trigger Chart
a must read
Understanding PTSD after the event and daily Triggers!
http://home.pcisys.net/~thebear/ptsd_rejection.html
