Triggers

I'm currently going through an awful lot of crap, and I can feel that my baseline level of stress or anxiety is elevated. I can clearly see that things I might be able to ordinarily allow to wash over me without incident are now triggering adverse reactions.

What I'm currently attempting to do is take more "Me Time" to reduce the baseline, such that when I experience these triggers I've got more room to breathe before I red-line.

Something I've depended upon for the greatest time is compartmentalisation, I take each triggering event or emotion and put the feelings into a mental box and close the lid, and move forward. As the next event occurs I do the same, it goes in a box. The difficulty comes when you start opening the mental boxes and checking whats inside, sometimes the lids on lots of boxes open simultaneously and it becomes a runaway stream of emotions. I've become so competent boxing up these events that I become un-phased by even the most dreadful of news.

There are lots of ways to deal with heightened sensitivity to stimuli, you need to figure out which works best for you.

Thank you for this. I'm really intrigued by what you mean by "me time", I think something like that could really help me

Thank you for this. I'm really intrigued by what you mean by "me time", I think something like that could really help me