some people with listed disorders can trigger derealization/ depersonalisation by triggers ( like panic attacks and ptsd ). I dont really understand how it works ( Im not a therapist or psychologist) so you can seach information on google, for better explaination.

alright then. thank you for the help

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(Saturn, any pronouns) hi! someone who is sometimes triggered by "dissociation/derealization/depersonalization", I am diagnosed with psychosis and I have interacted with people in the psychotic spectrum, normally we have episodes where we:

1. Feel reality is fake (for example, in one episode, I have touched my skin and it didn't feel like my skin normally, but more like I was in anesthesia)

2. Feel we are in another reality (for example, I have felt like I'm in a void)

3. Have delusions or hallucinations, which are not real (for example, I had delusions of grandeur, where I feel like I'm a literal king and I'm above everyone, or I had hallucinations of shadows following me)

4. Feel paranoid about our surroundings (for example, I have felt like other people are someone else in disguise, and are trying to hurt me)

At least those are the general experiences + mine, but ofc, there's more to it and everyone can experience things in their own special way

Weirdcore can remind one of their episodes, like hallucinations of people with eye heads, or the paranoia of being in an eerie place, and while just remembering those episodes can cause distress, it can also trigger a dissociation, "are those eye beings following me?" or "I have been in a place similar to those images, does it mean those places were never real?", and mostly those episodes don't feel pleasant at all, and even if they do, it's never a good thing to be disconnected from reality as it can trigger long-lasting delusions and interrupt one's routine

It may be difficult to understand *why* we feel that way, like "how can that trigger someone to feel that way?", and to be honest, I don't understand completely either, but not everyone's mind is the same, every mind can react differently to stress, especially when one is mentally ill or suffered from trauma, psychology sure is interesting

I feel the same way but for different reasons. I see all over tiktok and youtube trigger warnings like: "peanut allergy, lost dog, rubix cube, etc." the most STUPID AND TRIVIAL TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR cute sweet snowflakes!

trigger warning: world of warships

(Saturn, any pronouns)

@Luckymasterdevj um, yeah some trigger warnings may be weird, and not many individuals need those, but individuals who use very specific trigger warnings (like "Rubix cube") usually have a mutual that is triggered by that stuff or they themselves are triggered by that stuff, why does it trigger them? Maybe they went through a trauma that specifically had that object, and again, the mind reacts in its own way to trauma, once I had a very big dissociative episode, and after that, my mom (who is old, so you can argue she is not from "the snowflake era") and I were sorta triggered by masks for some time since the dissociative episode made me hyperfixated on masks, to put an example of how someone can get triggered by "random" stuff

For trigger warnings such as peanut allergy, lost dog and war of warships:

• Had you ever had an allergy? Or just from the looks of it, would you purposefully get an allergy?

• Do you know a pet can be just as important for an individual as a family is important to them?

• World of Warships is about... war

Just the memory of those things can make someone go through a panic attack

//TW of car crash

If you still don't understand why those things can be triggered, imagine you went through a car crash, you would be paranoid to enter a car again, and just looking at one would make you paranoid, and you wouldn't want someone to poke fun of you for it, "uuuuuh, a snowflake is triggered by cars, it's dumb because I don't get triggered by cars 🤓"

Unless a trigger warning is directly offensive (for example, a trigger warning for black people), you have to just... chill, it doesn't hurt to read a trigger warning on a page, it can actually be beneficial for others

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Triggers are often very normal things, such as specific sounds like a doorbell, floorboards squeaking, a certain food or taste or smell associated with a traumatic event. The brain subconciously relates with the thing that hurt them.

Example: pavlovs dogs. The bell is a trigger. If pavlov chose to hurt the dogs when he rang the bell, the bell would cause them to panic rather than to salivate.

thanks for the explanations everyone