We are celebrating international women’s day week, how can we not talk about the mental health of women?
Women are often demeaned or misunderstood for mood swings and uncertain behaviors.
Only women who are suffering know that they have been triggered.
Being triggered means experiencing past pain in the present moment.
Giving unreasonable big emotional reactions to small things.
For example, you asked to bring ice cream to your husband and he forgets and you feel extremely sad about it because you relate it to past trauma may be in childhood when you are denied things you wanted.
When we are triggered due to any reason, our defense mechanism takes place, and either we fight too aggressively or freeze.
We fail to connect to our healthy coping skills and succumb to react irrationally.’
If you are awared of such unusual happening to yourself then identify your triggers.
Observe your pattern, what is triggering you to react strongly?
Name your feelings. What do you feel while reacting, happy, sad, or angry?
Get to the root of your triggers:
What does it remind me of? Did anything happen in childhood? Any specific fear?
Once you know your triggers try to self-regulate:
Take a deep breath when you feel your emotions may explode.
Withdraw yourself from discussion, conversation, or situation. Take a walk in another room or in the open air. Refocus, rebalance yourself, and come back.
Do journaling. Writing down your emotional struggle helps us to release stuck emotions in the loop of our thoughts.
Accept your feelings. To heal you need to feel. Be gentle to yourself and do not judge or punish yourself. Sometimes grieving or expressing help us heal emotions that are left not dealt with.Share your journey and tactics for coping with triggers that might be helpful to fellow women readers.
