Thanks wildfire, much appreciated. I think your doing a wonderful job in yourself though, because when you look at things, your actively seeking help for yourself, professional therapy and assistance, and general support here, well done. Many of us never give ourselves enough credit for the hard work we do with ourselves... so maybe you should be giving yourself some of that credit also for a job well done.

Triggers are just something that we learn in time. They will always be triggers, but it is the reaction that we learn to control, and only the trigger we learn to identify. For example, I know that reading through endless PTSD reports, medical documents, books, recounts of trauma in gruesome detail, is a trigger for me, because when I first started doing it, I ended up sick for a day or two afterwards, each time I built up information then sifted through it in one go. I identified the cause of the trigger. Well actually, it jumped out at me, but still it is a trigger. What I learnt and taught myself mentally, was that even though this was a trigger, there has to be a happy medium to where I can read the most terrible incidents of life, and still function, because that is what I need to do to help get important facets of others experience and information here, into a light where it could help someone else. I have slowly worked on that particular trigger, to now know I can read endless stories and medical documents, with little to no side effects anymore. Basically, I took them for what they are, information, and other peoples information and traumas, not mine. The problem with PTSD, is that we tend to take on others traumas also when reading them, something we must develop and ensure we don't do, because our own emotional tanks and cups of stress don't have room for others trauma, with the end result being we overfill and explode or shutdown.

I think in conjunction with trauma therapy, triggers can be isolated and many can be removed. Some can't, some can. This particular trigger for me, I was able to remove, as I haven't had any side effects recently from reading trauma related incidents. On the other hand, I can not remove the trigger of shopping center crowds if I haven't mentally prepared myself to handle them for a set duration, ie. being in the shops when quiet, but during the time when school finishes, thus a flood of children rush shopping centers to hang out and be cool. I can be in a shop for some time doing something, when I walk out, suddenly the center is crowded, I get triggered instantly, and it gets worst as I try to get my way out of the center. Mental preparation, which I am constantly attempting to work upon, but for some reason just can't beat that particular scenario, so I generally avoid that scenario by ensuring I don't go near shopping centers or out even, around the time school finishes. It is one trigger that avoidance is appropriate for me to eliminate it from flaring my symptoms.