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Anybody else have weird triggers? Want to list them? (yes, *trigger warn*)

#706 User is offline   Eveyl 

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Posted 15 June 2012 - 01:25 PM

- handsome guys
- guys who work out
- every man actually
- every kind of touching ( especially grabbing wrist or neck)
- hugs
- dark blue sheets
- white plastic bags
- minority report the movie
- dirty dancing music
- red cars
- motocycles
- rabbits
- key noises
- ravioli pastas
- male talking to me
- my period
- male trying to flirt with me
- trains
- big mirrors
- sexual content in movies/conversation
- his name
- some dark grey sofa
- buddha statues
- sink
- doing the dishes
- ringbell
- cigarette smoke
- Some kind of tatoos
- candies
- some radio station
- some yoga poses like lying on the back doing yogi breathnwith eyes closed
- green balls or balloons
- gun ( even in photo, movie or in policeman pocket)
- me... ( looking at me on the mirror)
- the word "princess"

#707 User is offline   daylily 

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Posted 15 June 2012 - 10:36 PM

  • Football
  • green and yellow jerseys
  • mangos
  • talking or thinking about fisting
  • people who are taller than me (esp males)
  • people who are broader/look stronger or heavier than me (esp males)
  • gmail chat
  • blue carpets
  • printed pictures
  • long straight hair on girls
  • messy black liner on girls (just on top lid)
  • the places THEY call home
  • being quizzed on song names, dates in history or names
  • anything about football
  • tongues (seeing them)
  • beards
  • someone saying 'mine' to me
  • specific types of slang
  • did I mention football
  • and football. anything about it, watching it, people yelling about it, ANYTHING to do with.... how it works. (i cant even write out the stuff. makes me nauseous.)
  • images of r*pe, ab*se, indifference to people's personal boundaries
  • degrading jokes
  • the term "p*ssy with life support"


and football. god I hate it so much.

#708 User is offline   guilty79 

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Posted 16 June 2012 - 04:02 PM

the smell of achool an cigrets when i am kissing a guy and blond hair and blue eyes on a man

#709 User is offline   soulflower 

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Posted 20 June 2012 - 12:40 AM

My triggers...animal abuse commercials
A child crying
Mean or bossy women
Hinton, wv
Camping (I'm trying very hard to get over this one)
People who can't or won't face reality
Robert de Niro
Bill oreilly
Incompetence
Injustice
The band ELO

#710 User is offline   PhoenixxRising 

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Posted 20 June 2012 - 08:17 AM

Bananas.

#711 User is offline   momtario 

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Posted 21 June 2012 - 06:14 AM

Muffled voices.
People standing in front of a window or doorway so bright that you can't see their faces.
Other things that are less strange, too... these are just the 2 that I don't understand.

#712 User is offline   ralackey 

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Posted 21 June 2012 - 02:12 PM

Thank you for posting what triggers you.
Mine are Hands on my shoulders
being tickled( this is extremely painful physically to me)
The smell of cigarretts
Anyone using the "F" word
Rape scenes in movies. I'll turn it off immediately
risk of possible relationship with a man.
hearing the word "Babe"
I have lots others but it's triggering me to even think of them.
Love and peace to all in Pandoras aquarium.

#713 User is offline   blackbird86 

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Posted 22 June 2012 - 07:07 AM

I don't know if these are triggers, per se, but I hate them and they make me extremely uncomfortable:

-- terms of endearment (especially from men)
-- hearing/reading anything about CSA (Sandusky trial, ugh)
-- tickling (double ugh)
-- anyone touching my ears (especially men)
-- anyone pinching/squeezing the fat on my belly or arms (especially men)

This post has been edited by blackbird86: 22 June 2012 - 07:39 AM


#714 User is offline   Liz 

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Posted 23 June 2012 - 12:41 PM

the smell of bleach
the smell of old spice or brut
people sneaking up behind me
twilight- when the sun goes down and it gets darker
washcloths
old men with big belly

#715 User is offline   flutefairy 

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Posted 23 June 2012 - 11:15 PM

View Postlultimanotte, on 04 June 2012 - 10:51 PM, said:

View Postlultimanotte, on 10 November 2007 - 11:26 PM, said:

any sexual talk...or slang.....

r*pe scenes.....or s*x scenes.....


the words: "retarded, abnormal, freak"


people telling me that im lying. even if its about something stupid.


oh goodness i could be here for a week if i write anymore


adding to myself.

family guy.
being grabbed from behind.

fat men. (most were fat) :(/>

alcohol

someone grabbing my wrist

any sexual talk at all

human sexuality and being a woman

(im getting worse :tear:/>


wedgies. i dont know why...

a melissa etheridge song......dont remember which. any songs that played during cookouts in the 90s.

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 09:45 PM

Mine are:
being held down even whrn playing around
any music by journey
Bright dance rave lights
Techno music
being drunk (brings back the feeling of being drugged)
smell of pine cleaner
being touched without my permission
anything sexual.

Its been 5 years and I'm still messed up

#717 User is offline   earthangel39 

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 09:52 PM

View Postmarlene49, on 14 May 2012 - 12:37 AM, said:

Last week... in a dentist's chair, resulting in a full blown panic attack and thinking that I was crazy.

Were you given sedation of any kind. It happened to me in a dentist chair too. Weird huh?

#718 User is offline   romany 

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 10:01 PM

They're not really triggers as much, but still make me feel blecky:

-Bright colored decorating hearts, heart shaped boxes of chocolate, really anything valentines day related.
-Having my wrists held, or having my arms held above my head
-Pinching or specific special attention to my nipples especially
-Having to walk through slush or any kind of wet snow
-Any kind of rape or abuse in the media. I almost vomited while watching The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 10:25 PM

anyone stroking, touching or playing with my hair

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 11:36 AM

View Post~Lily, on 26 June 2012 - 10:25 PM, said:

anyone stroking, touching or playing with my hair


that kind of bothers me too. i know it is kind of a natural thing to do if it is consentual.

honestly i dont know why it triggers me. just makes me feel small and guilty for complaining about hurts i guess....

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