We have the same obscure trigger,,, and, if iirc from when you talked about it a bit before (in tags on something, I think?), from at least similar situations too. That's both... really uncanny and kinda neat, if unfortunate due to the fact of "obscenely obscure so no hope in hell of really having it considered as legitimate outside of sj and psychology circles" and both of those are. Fairly dubious in that respect.
Heh. That is kinda neat, though I’m sorry you went through anything like that.
It’s a trigger for me because, when I was institutionalized, I was basically unable to eat the food they actually provided. (Sensory issues? In psych inpatients? Who’d have thought?) One of the staff members gave me the fruit cup out of her lunch just so Id eat something; when this was successful she started bringing in extras for me, risking her job in the process. I basically lived on nothing else for a week, and that smell brings me right back there.
Triggers can be anything that your brain connects with trauma. They don’t have to “make sense” to people who weren’t there to be legit. Respect people’s triggers whether or not you understand them.
