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hard to say. sometimes trigger is so fast and response is so fast i cant even remember it. abandonment is always high on the list tho. i dont respond to abandonment except to go inside myself.

bets

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My run-of-the-mill trigger is abandonment and anything that leads up to it, like strong disapproval, etc. It happens quickest when I am in the situation where I have to go along with hubby's family or friends and do things triggering. He's grown really cold before, but has quit since. I can handle disagreement, but the disapproval is gutwrenching. Truth is, I'd live, but thats not what it feels like.

The other thing is helplessness- maybe you can see something different. During childhood, my Dad used to be the devil incarnate- (my mom's approval of me depended on his *happiness*, like above trigger). He "changed" after we left.... Years later in '04, he got physically sick and I started having "trouble". He came to me for help, hanging onto me for survival instead of going to the hospital and I pretty much had a nervous breakdown. Nothings been the same since.

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I have to say for me is aggressiveness in others, whether directed at me or not, it's a huge trigger. Even if it's just words, I just fall apart. I can't cope with tension, confrontation.. anything like that.. unless I've had a drink, and then I seem to revel in it.. odd :wacko:

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My T says abandonment/fear of rejection...and he is right to a degree I also think when i get triggered to remeber past experiences that is something i can't cope with.

Mrs Tree

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Abandonment. At least with depression, I have my depression to feel instead of just that empty hollow feeling of, well, being abandoned and so isolated. good question.

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thinking that my partner is looking at another woman (even though he isn't really)- so abandonment/jealousy issues, i guess.

makes me totally freak out and go into one!

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People letting me down is also one of the worse feelings - when they don't turn up and don't let you know why. And your left wondering if they don't like you anymore, did i do something wrong, am i not even worth a phone call etc.

Christina

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