AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
2min chapter
Dr Emily - When Are You Triggered?
The Imperfects
Triggers and Discomfort
What I want to differentiate is the difference between what is a trigger for someone that's experienced trauma and what we just use the words so easily to say, I was triggered. So is there a triggering of a traumatic experience for you, or is the trigger that it's surfacing discomfort? Okay, gotcha. This discomfort that is new discomfort as opposed to bringing up past trauma.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Speaker 1
It
Speaker 4
could be absolutely anything, couldn't it? Yeah, it can be. Yeah.
Speaker 1
What I want to differentiate is the difference between what is a trigger for someone that's experienced trauma and what we, I think, really often, we just use the words so easily to say, I was triggered. Oh, yeah. So is there a triggering of a traumatic experience for you, or is the trigger that it's surfacing discomfort? Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 3
This discomfort that is new discomfort as opposed to bringing up past trauma. Well, just like, is
Speaker 2
it like Penny's example when she says, when she hears people say, I'm so OCD because I like having like a tidy bathroom. No, you like having a tidy bathroom. OCD is this crippling mental illness. It's very different in the same way that I'm triggered. It might be someone says, oh, we're going to do a hill sprints today. Yes. And you're, oh, I'm triggered because that's such an unpleasant thing to do as opposed to. Yeah. So like, you know, maybe, maybe someone was in a car crash when they're a kid and I hear a really
Speaker 1
loud smash and they're triggered by the memory of a car crash. Yes. Okay. Yeah. 100% because I think really what has, what has happened probably like probably over the last kind of five to 10 years is that we've started to use this word trigger in a really, um, not, this is not intentional, but kind of in a trivial way. So we can say like, you know, I, um, I went down to the shops and there was, there was no part and I was triggered. You know, like I was triggered. Basically what happens is there I experienced an unpleasant emotion.
Speaker 3
That's sort of said as a joke. Yeah.
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode