Your emotional triggers are wounds that need to heal. These beliefs are based on fears—they are not reality. You don’t want to be frequently triggered. It is exhausting and painful, especially for highly sensitive and empathic people. I used to have a very short fuse – which usually reflects a problem with your emotional triggers. Emotional triggers can be anything - people, words, opinions, situations that suddenly provoke an intense, uncontrollable emotional reaction within us. Childhood neglect can cause toxic shame is a form of abuse and trauma. It develops because your parents shamed, criticized and delivered passive punishment. I internalized those hurtful and untrue words and marginalizing behaviors, such as the silent treatment, and it became my understanding of who I was as a person and caused me to suffer from chronic anxiety and low self-esteem. Some people cope with toxic shame by hurting or not taking care of themselves – codependent – me, while some hurt other people and become highly antisocial and narcissistic.
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