If you experienced a traumatic event, you likely remember certain sounds, smells, words, or discussions related to that experience. When you encounter these reminders, known as triggers, you may get a feeling of anxiety, unease or even panic. In this episode, we try to understand symptoms, reasons, and ways to deal with triggers.
May 24
Thoughts on Antidepressants
People love talking about mental health until medication becomes part of the conversation. Suddenly, antidepressants and any psychiatric medication are treated as something scary, shameful, or life-changing in the worst way possible. A recap about the last couple of months led me ... Show More
47m 49s
Jan 2026
When Hustle Mentality Enters Friendships & Relationships
We are taught that success comes from persistence, pushing through discomfort, overcoming barriers, and refusing to quit when things get hard. That mindset builds careers, skills and ambitions. But what happens when we apply the same logic to friendships & relationships?
30m 1s
Dec 2025
Who Stays & Who Fades Across Distance?
People think the hardest part about moving abroad is adapting to a new country, but sometimes, the hardest part is realizing that not everyone will try to keep you close once you’re far away. The episode is about exploring the drifting friendships, the fading effort, the unexpect ... Show More
40m 45s
Jan 2022
TRIGGERED! When you have an emotional flashback
Welcome back to TRIGGERED! New year, new triggers for us to deal with. In this episode, I talk about the experience of having an emotional flashback. This is when something (or someone) triggers you to regress to a feeling or emotional state from the past, which could be from an ... Show More
24m 19s
Oct 2024
#160: How to Work Through a Trigger
<p>In today’s episode, we’re talking about how to navigate emotional triggers in a healthy and constructive way. Whether it’s a comment, an argument, or even an unexpected event, triggers can send us into emotional overdrive, leaving us feeling overwhelmed and disconnected from o ... Show More
29m 32s
Oct 2019
Ep 06 – Triggers
Triggers are a huge thing that people deal with when grieving a suicide death. Everybody we interviewed for this podcast talked about triggers, and you are probably hyper aware of them too. A noise, a specific location, a smell, something you see on TV, a season of the year, a pa ... Show More
16m 3s