Triggers

Finding out my (separated) husband is going away for a weekend with the woman he left me for. I can always tell because he acts super-sweet and nice to me a few days beforehand. I don't know if it's the thought of him going away with her, or the fact that he lies about it. Either way, it triggers depression. I hate that I can't get past this trigger.

It's all my fault cause I'm the one with the mental illness! This one I'v been struggle with a lot lately! The stress is so unbearable! I can feel the rage bubbling under my skin! It's known of them it's the bipolar always the bipolar regardless how I am!

I used to look at my illness as a separate person to me and pass the blame and emotions to him… I am better for excepting the illness and the illness is me

See I do accept the mental illness. It took a very very long time for me to come to terms that I would never lead a "normal" life and that I would need to be on medication for the rest of my life. It's all the other ppl! Friends, family even the doctors! Those effin ppl call me crazy, irrational, moody etc etc but their the ones causing it! I've been trying to educate them and now all of a sudden I'm mental and sudicialed oh and it's all just a cry for help! But it's NOT! I just thought by giving them the tools and being honest would help them help me and it has caused more stress then I've encountered in a very long time! Now I just wish I would have kept my mouth shut and continued to suffer alone and inside my head! Thanks for really understanding and actually supporting me cause I've really took the hit by opening my mouth to the real world or at least my real world.

I think any type of stress is a trigger I feel I building inside me sometimes… Other times I swtich moods rapidly and feel like 2 or more people

Stress does it to me everytime! It can put me into any emotion/episode.

Prolonged stress sends me into depression and or manic episode. Dealing with people I don't want to deal with can send me into a manic episode. Somedays, breathing sends me into an anger episode. It all depends on how my day is going and the mood that I start out with, but any kind of prolonged stress is my huge contributor to go spiraling into a mood.

Not being able to understand the functions of this site! I got the app first and used it for a week before i thought to go to the webite, it does not have as many options, I like all the options I just can't figure out how to get rid of the red notify symbol! It's triggering and it's frustrating! grrrr

I was just talking about this over the last two days with family and I've realized how much my list changes depending on my mood. Sometimes I can handle more than usual and sometimes it can be something as small as a noise. Then depending on the mood I either freak out or just suffer silently in my head. I've been working on coming up with a list of things for my husband but I don't know how to word things. It's hard!

Conflict is the big one for me. I am terrified of conflict. Either involving me or not. I can't listen to people argue (even on TV, movies, or radio) because it makes me extremely anxious.

Other things that set me off: frustration, rejection, negative criticism, and too many sounds going on at once (I can't tune anything out).

Ditto on the sounds there are some sounds that make me sick to the stomach and a flip will follow shortly

Someone throwing something out of frustration, like jargon I have a arm long list but throwing something or refusing to answer a question I asked

Rejection, real (rare) or imagined.

I'm the same way, I imagine my friends rejecting my a lot when I am in a mood because I am having trouble. Its a vicious cycle for me.

Yep. Its a type of paranoia they say. Thinking people are against you, imagining the worst.

I don't mind crazy or crazy jokes, I make them about myself but I'm ok with it now. I don't like the pre judge that because I have a mental illness I'm automatically "retarded." yeah sometimes my brain is slow in the process or just to damn fast to process but I'm no dummie!

The being called crazy I understand that one too well as I'm sure a lot of us here do

Sudden loud noise … subtle repetitive noise. Being yelled at. Being called crazy. Drinking too much. :/