Triggers

[phillygwm]

You often hear about people, usually survivors of assault, who get triggered by certain things.  I had a (female) friend who could not be approached from behind or in her sleep.

Anyone else here have similar issues?  If so, what's your trigger?  What happens if it occurs, whether accidentally or on purpose?  Is it something that precludes you from doing certain acts or do you just submit and deal with the flashbacks?

Edited December 12 by phillygwm

[SFCumdog]

Hope I can explain this correctly, but I had a long-term partner who advanced into being a heavy drinker. He would often go to bed earlier than I did (probably because he was soused) but he hid it well and I didn't always know that the slide had started. When I would walk into the bedroom and the door had been closed there would be this horribly disgusting and rotten  distillery-like smell in the room that had been pouring out of his mouth while he slept. It made me sick to my stomach and always kind of made me panic because it usually foretold of worse things to come from him. To this day if I get a whiff of that same kind of smell off of someone, it kind of makes me want to turn and run, that's how badly it triggers me.