Post by june on Dec 14, 2018 20:55:53 GMT
I know that the main trigger for me is violence. Especially emotional violence. I have had a lot of very rigid people in my life with various diagnosis and being too much around them triggers intense daydreaming.
Big men with a misogynist attitude, anyone who engages in conversation not to listen and share information but to control what I think or feel, makes me escape into a different version of myself to handle the discomfort, pain and grief. Lately it has been triggerede by conversations with obsessive and rigid vegans, conservatives, liberals, pro gun advocates, spiritual seekers, dog owners, politicians, mothers, fathers and tormentors from my past. And I like conversations normally. Kind of funny though how daydreaming both protects and imprison me.
There is so much sadness inside me from all that has happened in my life, and dealing with it has been very difficult sometimes. Daydreaming has been a good mechanism when I didn't have anyone to turn to. But it also has some very troubling side effects I would like to be without.
Does anyone here know this kind of trigger? How do you cope? I am mostly okay.
Big men with a misogynist attitude, anyone who engages in conversation not to listen and share information but to control what I think or feel, makes me escape into a different version of myself to handle the discomfort, pain and grief. Lately it has been triggerede by conversations with obsessive and rigid vegans, conservatives, liberals, pro gun advocates, spiritual seekers, dog owners, politicians, mothers, fathers and tormentors from my past. And I like conversations normally. Kind of funny though how daydreaming both protects and imprison me.
There is so much sadness inside me from all that has happened in my life, and dealing with it has been very difficult sometimes. Daydreaming has been a good mechanism when I didn't have anyone to turn to. But it also has some very troubling side effects I would like to be without.
Does anyone here know this kind of trigger? How do you cope? I am mostly okay.
, yes! I resonate with this very much. The current political environment is so divisive and belligerent and so many people are just so rigid and unreasonable. This really applies to both sides: the staunch arch-conservatives, Trump supporters and gun nuts as well as the ultra-PC social justice warriors. Dealing with them often triggers violent fantasies that spike my blood pressure and make it difficult to control the physical "stimming" that goes along with them. Even in my youth a lot of my daydreams involved revenge fantasies. I act out violently only in these daydreams and hardly ever in real life. How do I cope with it? I will let you know when I figure it out. Often I need to calm myself down and switch to something that distracts me and shifts my thoughts to something else. Sometimes it works, but not always.