Users want a feature that allows them to log and track their emotional triggers over time, helping them identify patterns and manage their responses more effectively.
Hello. [19M] + BPD + OCD Not sure if this kind of post is allowed here, but figured I'd try anyway. My therapist has recently recommended exposure therapy due to some triggers i have, but how would this work in my case with my specific triggers? I dealt with a traumatic event in November by the hands of an ex friend and the friend he replaced me with. Since then, everything about those two and anything reminding me of them haunts my thoughts completely, even to the point where I'm losing sleep over it too. I've been put on several more meds for anxiety and sleep since that traumatic event but nothing is helping. I'm not gonna specify certain triggers as I'm trying to remain anonymous, but I can label a few that hopefully aren't as identifying. *I'm not listing these in hopes of finding a diagnosis. I'm listing these to hopefully find something that works for me.* Here are a few: - The word "reconcile" (My ex friend used the word before we stopped talking and it was the first time i had ever heard that word. Embarrassing, I know.) - Wolves and bunnies / rabbits. My ex friend loved bunnies and his new friend likes wolves. I try to avoid content containing either of these and especially content of these two animals together. - Dish soap of all things. (His new friend shares a name with a certain dish soap brand, iykyk.) - The night sky. (Depending on the color of it. I remember the color the sky was the night the traumatic event happened, and i try to stay inside at night if the sky is the same color. That's how I learned that the night sky can look different sometimes.) - The month of March (My ex friend's birthday is this month. Lucky me.) - Two specific songs. (My ex friend and I both had songs that we associated with each other, and they were both songs that I introduced him to because I liked the songs longer than I knew him. These songs have been removed from my Playlist since that event.) - The color purple. (They both like purple.) - Specific body washes / sprays that i own. (Used those specific scents during that traumatic event and smelling them sends me into panic attacks.) - Both of their names. (Duh.) Now that those are out of the way, here's some more context: - I was friends with my ex friend for 6yrs. We stopped being friends two weeks after our 6yr friendship anniversary. He's only known this new friend for a year, and he constantly pushed me to the side in favor of them. - I never interacted with his new friend unless he was present. Their entire existence alone was a trigger for me. When I did interact with them, it was for my friend's sake and not because I wanted to. - Yes, my ex friend knew of some of my triggers. He just didn't care and proceeded to double down and start triggering me deliberately. I tried to communicate through these issues, but they always fell on deaf ears. Is there **ANY** way to get these triggers to go away or soften? He won't leave my head no matter what I do and I'm embarrassed by crying in front of my therapist every time I bring him up during our sessions. I'm so anxious and stressed out constantly that my hair is falling out and thinning. It's embarrassing to think this much about a person who probably doesn't even think about me anymore.