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Anyone have an uncommon trigger? How often do you run across it?

For me, it's helicopter crashes. I avoid action movies but I saw Suicide Squad recently because for some reason I wasn't really thinking of it as an action movie. I spent the rest of the movie fighting a panic attack and missed a lot of what happened.

Mine is the sound of a key unlocking a door unexpectedly. It was a problem when I was still sharing a dorm room and I didn't know when my roommate would be showing up. Since I got my own room and then moved back home it's not really an issue anymore. I always know when to expect people now.

Don't know how common it is, but certain types of bullying can be major triggers for me. And especially the bully getting away with it or the bully being justified/given an excuse in the narrative or the bully and victim making up.

Heartbeats.

They always set me on edge. Not flat out panic, but they do make me tense and anxious.

Certain kinds of gaslighting in fiction really upsets me? Especially if it's played as ~fine.

Also I really don't like immobility?

I'm not sure if it's a trigger, but the few times I've had a panic attack or came close to having one was when I got lost and had no idea how to get where I had to be and no one to ask. So, the possibility of that happening again, or sth like getting off the wrong bus stop or on the wrong train. These days I look up itineraries days before I have to be anywhere, often several times, and of course when I finally got a smartphone two years ago, that was a blessing.

Stalking. It doesn't even really have to be violent or anything. Just the idea that the victim is powerless to stop their stalker, and the idea that it might escalate. There was a movie or something I watched on TV with David Tennant and he started dating this girl's sister or best friend I think just to be in her life and scare her and she tried to warn people but they wouldn't listen.

I can't be the only one imagining that as a Doctor Who season, or alternative interpretation of one.

THAT WAS REALLY SCARY AND FUCKED UP

It's not a trigger by the actual definition, but I get severely uncomfortable by people - even the bad guys - crying or being bullied. It makes me feel sick, especially if in the narrative I'm supposed to find it darkly humorous or something. Nothing makes me stop watching/reading/whatever something more quickly than that. Maybe because I had bad depression and the feeling of being belittled and alone was something that hit home, but the thought of literally anyone (yes, anyone) crying just disturbs me.

I dunno about triggered either, and the crying thing doesn't necessarily apply to me, unless the character's crying because they've been bullied, but watching characters be bullied will definitely ruin my day. There's a character whose introduction involved bullying another character, and even though the character being bullied did something on the show that same episode that made me rage and go "you fucker," the scene of him on the ground being kicked and mocked made me start crying. I've hated the bullying character ever since. For other reasons as well, mind, but that first scene still makes me ill to think about.

I'm not sure if it's uncommon, I just find it odd because I don't know where it comes from, but more than once I've ended up in a full blown panic attack while reading about forced mental connections in fic. Which is an odd thing to be fucked over by when a) psychic powers are not generally applicable in real life, and b) as far as I know nothing remotely like that has ever happened to me. It's just ... something about being tied to someone so thoroughly that you can't even escape inside your own head. I can't deal with it. I can't.

The sound of my back gate opening. It's very creaky and can sound kind of horror movie-esque, but that's not why; my dad developed drug-induced paranoid schizophrenia a few years before his death and used to come around when he was having bad episodes and make trouble. One time I heard the gate open and ended up wedging myself in a corner of our toolshed under a shelf without remembering how I got there. It was the creepiest fucking panic attack I've ever had, because clearly I got myself in there, but I don't remember it at all.

These days, dad's been dead six years and the gate opening means mom's sneaking out to get booze, which can trigger me since it often means a trip to the ER. For her, not me, luckily, but I've always wondered what my heart rate would look like if I got my blood pressure taken while I was there.

can't you oil the gate?

It's not much of a trigger, but stuff about childhood sweethearts - specifically early primary school, 5-8 sort of age - always makes me super uncomfortable. I guess that's reasonable, being as how I was molested by my "boyfriend" in second grade, but it still feels like I'm being dramatic.

Giving birth. Happens surprisingly often on daytime TV. :(

I do not need to see someone stretch out her vag by pushing out a watermelon, accompanied by infernal screaming.
I *know* it's happening. Don't need the visuals, tyvm. I pretty much get a panic attack.

I also can't stand secondhand embarrassment. NOPE NOPE NOPE. I can't even skip the scene, I have to stop watching what I'm watching right then and there. With luck, I'll finish watching it in 3 years, and I'll get through the embarrassing scene by pausing it every 10 seconds.
I saw Bridesmaids at the cinema and there's one scene that really got to me... It wasn't even that bad, but I couldn't escape it so I had some kind of a black out and didn't become aware of my surroundings/what was happening on the screen until 30 minutes later.

I'm with you on the giving birth one. Also, figures with no face usually freak me the fuck out.

not a trigger but I have a phobia of small towns, they set me on edge and make my heart race to see unless they're very obvious sets like on a sitcom or something. taking long road trips is the worst for it because between the cities and suburbs I eventually drive through tiny nothing towns with too much space and abandoned looking property. ugh.

That's so strange to me!! I'm sorry of course, it's just strange as someone who grew up in a small town.

Actually, on second thought...as someone who grew up in a small town, that might not really fit the definition of an "irrational" fear.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-08-18 11:51 (UTC) - Expand

lol try living in a big, dark forest at the edge of a small town

nobody from my elementary school ever attended my birthday parties or sleepovers

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Idk about uncommon but really specific types of emotional abuse set me off, its hard to describe but one of the few times I was truly triggered was watching film of the Stanford prison experiments in a class. I guess you would describe it as... military based abuse? idk.

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When someone wants me to do something I don't have the ability to actually do, and they're getting angrier and angrier. I'm pretty sure I had a panic attack when a customer was screaming about being overcharged by five dollars and I couldn't reduce the price.

The smell of weed and stoners in general.

Strangulation. Especially if it's a man strangling a woman.

Made the drive to and from work REAL interesting when the posters for X-Men Apocalypse were fucking EVERYWHERE.

(It's gotten better; I can recognize it for what it is, trace it back, and talk myself down from a full-blown panic attack, but there's still a log-grade anxiety that kind of follows me around for hours afterward.)

If you let your big bully breed (or rottie or dobe) run up to me I'll probably faint, cry or throw up or all three :(

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