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A PTSD [['''Trigger]]''', also known as [[Trigger|'''triggering]]''' content, is material that affects someone who has gone through trauma in a way that sets off Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Other types of triggers exist: [[I Need a Freaking Drink]] is when something triggers someone to need alcohol (or another substance). A negative behavior trigger is something that triggers an addictive response as opposed to trauma. Seizure triggers are flashing lights or other patterns that affect people with photosensitive seizures, and suicide triggering is the invoking of suicidal or hopeless feelings in a depressed person. The [[Berserk Button]] is triggering of anger or irrational rage.

* The original version of ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]''. Actually one of the first films to explore [[Trigger|triggering]] in depth, before the term was even generally used to describe it. While there's plenty of [[Critical Research Failure]] and such to go around and using [[Trigger|triggers]] to create an assassin is likely impossible in [[Real Life]] (thankfully), and while it is definitely [[Played for Drama]], the idea of using emotional [[Trigger|triggers]] to manipulate people into doing things they would not otherwise do or act against their own self-interest is actually [[Truth in Television]].