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Welcome to Therapist Uncensored. I'm Patty Allwell and Sue Marriott and Kelly and I are all here to talk to you about life, sex, relationships, attachment,

neuroscience, and just the really important things in your life.

Today's episode, we're going to talk about being triggered.

What does that mean and what's the neuroscience behind it?

What does it mean to be triggered too? Well according to

social media it means having a feeling. Having a big big feeling. I was actually looking at the Urban Dictionary and it's like it's

rough out there. I have to tell you they were actually saying that you should do trigger warnings if you are going to show a video that has things that you might have a feeling about.

There's hilarious YouTube videos of people sort of making fun of kind of mocking like you

trigger me and so it's definitely become a pop culture term.

Right.

And you know I just want to be a little cautious because trigger in the more historical context of psychotherapy means that you're something traumatic

from your past is coming up.

Exactly that's actually why that I wanted to talk about it today is that it has been co-opted by a popular culture like many psychological terms often are.

And we want to kind of bring it back to the origins and really bring it to you

know what does the science say about it and what does it really mean and then also

what is the practical application of this?

Like because being triggered like the real meaning of it where that you're actually

flooded with a feeling that doesn't make sense in the present.

So it's basically a trauma reaction where it's stored in a different part of the mind and

a different part of the brain.

And it all comes out based on a response now.

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