Brad Schipke explains how PTSD triggers work: external stimuli that remind your subconscious of past trauma, causing your body to re-experience the traumatic memories, emotions, and thoughts. Recovery is possible.
So what happens when PTSD is triggered? Well, basically what a trigger is, is a stimulus in the external environment that reminds your subconscious mind of a trauma that you had in your past. So then your body then reacts as if the present situation that you're experiencing right now is the exact same traumatic situation you experienced in the past, even though it might be completely different. So I might drop a book over here and make a loud noise, and that might trigger somebody, uh, to re-experience the traumatic memories, the traumatic emotions, And all the other data, thoughts, things like that, that they experienced and were built on the initial trauma. So that's basically what's happening, is that an external stimulus reminds your subconscious mind of the trauma, and then your subconscious mind floods your brain with all the unprocessed raw data, like the emotions, beliefs, and negative thoughts, and you basically re-experience the trauma as if you were there again. So that's basically what happens with the trigger. But the most important thing is to know that you can fully heal from this. And if you want to learn more in-depth tools, make sure to subscribe, and I hope this was helpful.
