Triggering Quotes

“Art and beauty have the unsuspected force of triggering mental power that gives people courage and confidence to steam ahead. Art and beauty bring to life unfulfilled hope, creative imagination, and bountiful goodwill.”
― Erik Pevernagie, Stilling our Mind

“Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.”
― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

“Whatever is triggering you, is on you.”
― Richie Norton

“You will never feel as desperate and fucked up and horrible as you do when you hear those things.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“I got antsy, thinking about my past.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“It was only when I stopped working with electricity that I realized that electromagnetic exposures had been routinely triggering my mating cycle.”
― Steven Magee

“The mobile phone video camera is triggering revolution.”
― Steven Magee

“Testing with the CPAP machine revealed that it was triggering altitude sickness symptoms after waking, specifically ‘Descent Fatigue’ during the daytime.”
― Steven Magee

“Thus the nerve may be taken to be a relay with essentially two states of activity: firing and repose. Leaving aside those neurons which accept their messages from free endings or sensory end organs, each neuron has its message fed into it by other neurons at points of contact known as synapses. For a given outgoing neuron, these vary in number from a very few to many hundred. It is the state of the incoming impulses at the various synapses, combined with the antecedent state of the outgoing neuron itself, which determines whether it will fire or not. If it is neither firing nor refractory, and the number of incoming synapses which “fire” within a certain very short fusion interval of time exceeds a certain threshold, then the neuron will fire after a known, fairly constant synaptic delay.
This is perhaps an oversimplification of the picture: the “threshold” may not depend simply on the number of synapses but on their “weight” and their geometrical relations to one another with respect to the neuron into which they feed; and there is very convincing evidence that there exist synapses of a different nature, the so-called “inhibitory synapses,” which either completely prevent the firing of the outgoing neuron or at any rate raise its threshold with respect to stimulation at the ordinary synapses. What is pretty clear, however, is that some
definite combinations of impulses on the incoming neurons having synaptic connections with a given neuron will cause it to fire, while others will not cause it to fire. This is not to say that there may not be other, non-neuronic influences, perhaps of a humoral nature, which produce slow, secular changes tending to vary that pattern of incoming impulses which is adequate for firing.”
― Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

“Is air travel triggering depression in sea level adapted humans?”
― Steven Magee

“It took me a while to figure out why I was frequently almost pooping my pants! It eventually emerged it was an abrupt increase in solar radiation levels that was triggering diarrhea to occur.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“My mind warped and twisted,
From too many years in a personal hell,
You’d think I’d run from triggering emotions,
But I’ve come to know them a little too well.”
― Frances Woodard, Strings Of Fate

“When we resist the urge to respond impulsively, and plant ourselves in our center as opposed to grasping at straws outside ourselves, we tap into a wellspring of inner fortitude.

Such mindful silence allows us to detach from the heat of the moment and respond with clarity rather than reactivity. Choosing silence more and more, we lose less and less energy to ‘dumb shit,’ as I like to say, while intelligently reclaiming our power faster and faster.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality