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the emotional tripwires that turn a memory into a live grenade.
means a stimulus, word, or situation that provokes a strong emotional or physiological reaction rooted in past experience.
from from the gun mechanism sense, literally the small lever that releases the hammer; psychology borrowed it in the 20th century to describe cues that fire off trauma responses the same way a pulled trigger fires a bullet.
not always dramatica smell or song can count
pop culture driftnow used loosely for any mild annoyance
clinical usekey concept in ptsd and exposure therapy