Road to recovery for any Mental Disorder can be hard enough without the different throughout the day. Here are some basic steps to stay away from , dealing with triggers and learning from triggers.
Step One: The first step is identifying the different objects, places, subjects, people or conversation that trigger you. This is a very important first step so that you KNOW what things cause you to trigger and learning how to avoid them will be much easier.
Step Two: The second step is to accept these certain things you found DO trigger you, and accepting you might have to stay away from certain places or objects or getting yourself prepared for stopping a conversation between friends or walking away from certain subjects.
Step Three: Learn to avoid and/or walk away from certain triggers. This could mean not going to certain places, changing a conversation among friends or family, walking away from a certain subject in a conversation, blocking certain people from your phone/internet, not looking at certain magazines or watching certain movies/tv shows, listening to certain music, and even sometimes changing your eating habits. (Matters on what triggers you)
Remember that everyone is different with their own issues, and their own causes for those issues. Which means that everyone has different triggers. So when in a support group setting try to keep to conversations that wont cause a trigger. This could be easier when you know what others have gone through, but if you don't and you are not sure if a certain subject will be a trigger subject be respectful and either ask or warn people in the support group BEFORE you start the conversation. If too many people don't want to talk about the subject because it triggers them and you still need/want to talk about it, ask if ANYONE is ok talking about it, and go into another room or talk via email.
If you are in a support group and they start talking about a trigger subject for you, and it isn't stopping/was already being talked about before you joined then either ask to change subject or leave the group for a little while and come back later when a new subject is being talked about.
Step One: The first step is identifying the different objects, places, subjects, people or conversation that trigger you. This is a very important first step so that you KNOW what things cause you to trigger and learning how to avoid them will be much easier.
Step Two: The second step is to accept these certain things you found DO trigger you, and accepting you might have to stay away from certain places or objects or getting yourself prepared for stopping a conversation between friends or walking away from certain subjects.
Step Three: Learn to avoid and/or walk away from certain triggers. This could mean not going to certain places, changing a conversation among friends or family, walking away from a certain subject in a conversation, blocking certain people from your phone/internet, not looking at certain magazines or watching certain movies/tv shows, listening to certain music, and even sometimes changing your eating habits. (Matters on what triggers you)
Remember that everyone is different with their own issues, and their own causes for those issues. Which means that everyone has different triggers. So when in a support group setting try to keep to conversations that wont cause a trigger. This could be easier when you know what others have gone through, but if you don't and you are not sure if a certain subject will be a trigger subject be respectful and either ask or warn people in the support group BEFORE you start the conversation. If too many people don't want to talk about the subject because it triggers them and you still need/want to talk about it, ask if ANYONE is ok talking about it, and go into another room or talk via email.
If you are in a support group and they start talking about a trigger subject for you, and it isn't stopping/was already being talked about before you joined then either ask to change subject or leave the group for a little while and come back later when a new subject is being talked about.