The word 'trigger' used to specifically be used to mean something that evoked memories/flashbacks of traumatic events-- say, if someone was wearing the same kind of aftershave as someone who attacked you. It seems to have entered a broader use in recovery and self-injury communities, to mean anything that evokes a negative emotion. (This seems to be based on a premise that all negative feelings are the result of unresolved past issues or traumas.)
It is certainly possible to not know there are others in your body. In fact that's the situation described in some of the 'MPD/DID literature,' although usually it's the 'host' or main fronter who supposedly knew nothing about the others.
Most of our life we have seen each other as friends and allies, but we've had some tensions in here resulting from the fact that when we first started to communicate with each other again (after years of suppressed communication because we were afraid of 'going crazy'), the 'main' fronter (at the time) became something of a dictator without realising it, controlling others in ways they resented.
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Date: 2005-12-03 11:09 pm (UTC)It is certainly possible to not know there are others in your body. In fact that's the situation described in some of the 'MPD/DID literature,' although usually it's the 'host' or main fronter who supposedly knew nothing about the others.
Most of our life we have seen each other as friends and allies, but we've had some tensions in here resulting from the fact that when we first started to communicate with each other again (after years of suppressed communication because we were afraid of 'going crazy'), the 'main' fronter (at the time) became something of a dictator without realising it, controlling others in ways they resented.