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Lindsay Scheinerman, MA, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
My work with clients is to help them recognize and build on their strengths to find solutions for the conflicts presented in their lives.
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I believe it would be most efficient to do so. Once you are aware of your triggers, you can usually prevent/avoid them in the future- not always- but at least, enough to warn people, or leave/avoid a particular environment.
It definitely helps to identify panic triggers. By identifying these triggers, you can figure out the best way to avoid them. You can also get to the root of the trigger and, with help, figure out why this is a trigger for you. This is great in the long term and can lead to finding positive coping mechanisms and techniques to help avoid panic attacks/ anxiety in the future and being able to control them when they do happen. Through identifying your triggers, you will find out a lot about yourself. Having a strong sense of identity is important in building a solid sense of self and can impact and change your way of thinking in a big way.
I would definitely say it helps to identify triggers. This way, you can tackle the problem head on by learning how to deal with the triggers as well! :)
It helps, but most important is to identify what makes you get over a panic attack. You can make a list with possible solutions, or just be aware that you have to do something with your hands for one and a half minutes :)
Yes, greatly. Much like with phobias, knowing what scares you enables you to face it. Then you can overcome it, using logic to process and conquer the feelings that cause panic and fear.
Yes! By identifying your triggers, you can prepare yourself to cope with them when they appear. By feeling prepared you can feel like you have more control of the situation, and this could ease your mind.
Yes. Once you can identify what your triggers are you can either avoid them or learn to deal with them and reduce the affect they may have on you. Sometimes you may even be able to work through a process to turn the trigger off. Although that takes alot of work and time to achieve.
Absolutely! Unless you know what things cause you to panic, how can you ever get help dealing with or completely avoiding these triggers? Know your enemy and then fight!
Deffinitley! If you identify your triggers you can work to plan ahead for them and either avoid them entirely or plan how to cope with them as they come up.
It honestly does, the more you are able to identify what your panic triggers are the easier you can find ways to handle them perhaps avoid them if it is a severe one. When you know your panic trigger you can come up with appropriate and effective responses to calm or subdue your panic, for instance if family gatherings make you panic for a certain reason, you can take some quite time off and take a walk when you feel overwhelmed and listen to music to help deal with the emotions. Knowing your trigger puts you in a better position to fight through it.
Anonymous
January 7th, 2016 4:34am
Yes! Identifying panic triggers will help you work through the things that cause anxiety for you. The point of identifying triggers is not to avoid them, but to work through them.
Anonymous
January 3rd, 2022 7:54am
Yes, it does help to identify your panic triggers. Everyone either has or needs a support system. A support system is a group of people who support and help you when you need or want it. If you identify each and every one of your panic triggers to either all or a trusted group of your support system, along with ways you know of for people to help you get past them, your support system will know everything necessary to help you. It is also good to note down your panic triggers so you can reflect on each of them on your own time. Reflecting on them may help you to start the process of getting past them, though getting past your panic triggers is not a race, and there is no need to rush through it.
I think it helps very much to identify panic triggers! Once they are identified, then panic can be prevented and you can work to further pursue recovery
Anonymous
April 4th, 2017 6:33pm
Yes, getting to the root of what triggers your anxiety really helps get on top of them .
When you find what causes your panic attacks you can learn to control them or even better, stop them.
Yes, it definitely can. Knowing your triggers can help you try to avoid them and overcome that certain obstacle. Lets say a trigger is tests. Its much easier to tell yourself "One at a time lets figure out how to overcome my panic/anxiety triggers. Lets start with coping with tests" instead of, "I have to overcome anxiety/panic but I don't have a starting place". Identifying triggers has helped me greatly.
In my experience yes, it does dramatically help. Once you identify your specific triggers, you can avoid or slowly start to work on those specifically. It can make your life a lot smoother :)
Anonymous
March 5th, 2018 5:55am
Absolutely, when you know the triggers you can understand why they trigger you and you can start dealing with them and healing.
I think it does help to identify panic triggers because then you can avoid them to a certain extent, and you can learn to cope with them. You can also learn why you're triggered by them if you identify them, at least from my experience.
Anonymous
June 5th, 2018 6:16am
Indeed it does, so that you avoid them more instinctively and refocus your brain on things that make you feel less sensitive. :)
Absolutely yes and this is why. Panic attacks are snowballing because we think we're about to lose control of our mind, our body, our health, and our thoughts. This ends up in more need to control, with the side effect of losing it all at once. The more we focus on keeping control of our actions, the more we lose control. Identifying panic triggers allows us to make sense of what's happening to us, and much often is enough to keep the attack at bay. When we know our triggers, we're able to reckon what's going inside us and make us ready to react the most rational way.
Anonymous
April 28th, 2020 7:12pm
Oh definitely, for most people at least.. By tracking, preferably in a journal of sorts, time of the panic attack, your feelings before during and after, any possible triggers, etc. Your panic attacks will be siginificantly reduced. For me personally, I have track them weekly in my panic attack journal, and make a monthly summary with any important notes. Play around, make it enjoyable and stress free, not something you feel like you have to do (similiar to a chore). Play music, learn handlettering, make a fun food or drink item to have while you do it. This is a step you are taking towards a positive and healthy life, treat it so!
It does help to identify your triggers! This is because the more you know about what triggers you, the better you can avoid situations that involve your trigger.
Definitely. It's the most helpful to not only identify them, but train yourself to go through thinking about why they're triggers, what caused them, how you're reacting to them, and if there are better ways to perceive or react to them. Ways to deal with rethinking triggers can be found in a bunch of the self-help guides, so if you haven't, you might want to give the one most relevant to your problems a look-through. Even if you don't write out the exercises, thinking through them and keeping them at the back of your head can help you cope.
I think it is very helpful to identify triggers, whether it's addiction or anxiety that one is dealing with. To be able to identify triggers gives on the ability to prepare for or avoid the situation.
Identifying triggers can be a huge help. It lets you know what factors (interpersonal, environmental, etc) impact you and in what way. Knowing your triggers empowers you to get back into the swing of your life, with the knowledge that you're able to handle what you come up against.
Identifying triggers is the first step in finding coping mechanisms. It helps a ton to be able to know what your triggers are because then you can create an action plan regarding them.
Yes it does. It gives us a name and something we can blame for the confusion and overwhelming feelings so we can work towards treating it.
Yes, it helps to identify triggers in order to avoid them and not to be triggered. Identifying and avoiding triggers is one of the most important things during recovery.
Yes it does. The awareness of the situations as well as the triggers allows us to be forewarned when an attack is coming, and in doing so we would be able to cope with the attacks better. :)
Anonymous
November 2nd, 2014 3:40pm
Yes, it does help because then you'd be able to spot the warning signs and help to stop or curb the problem before it gets out of control.
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