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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.
 
Information regarding triggering or specifically relevant quotes should be placed on the [[Useful Notes/Trigger|Useful Notes]] page, which has a more in-depth description of triggers and the meta concept for those interested. This page is for the discussion of [[In -Universe]] triggering only.
 
'''Do not put trigger warnings on any [[TV Tropes]] pages other than [[Fan Fic Recommendations]].''' Works that have full pages should already indicate the existence of triggering content in the description or trope list in a natural way, and a trope's description should be a good indication of whether or not there will be any significant triggering content in its examples.
 
Compare the [[Ban Onon Politics]] (an attempt at handling a near-universal [[Berserk Button]]), the [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo]], [[Trigger Phrase]], and [[Too Soon]]. Not to be confused with [[Squick]] which may be unsettling, but is not a psychological trigger.
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
 
* In [[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Clannad]], Kotomi sees a bus crash and hearing that Ryou might have been on the bus caused her to have a [[Freak-Out]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB40_Vxd2Fw Observe].
 
== Film ==
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* In the [[Alfred Hitchcock]] movie ''[[Spellbound]]'', an amnesia victim becomes uncomfortable every time he sees a pattern of wavy dark lines against a white background, because it reminds him {{spoiler|of the event which caused his amnesia - he had witnessed a murder at a ski resort, the dark lines were ski tracks in the snow}}.
* 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]].
* In ''[[The Muppets (Filmfilm)|The Muppets]]'' (2011), they find Animal in a therapy session to control his aggressive impulses. Turns out "drums" is a trigger word for him, to no one's surprise. It's also one for [[Jack Black]].
 
== Literature ==
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* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3577 Slick sees the pit leading to Hell, and remembers when he was in Hell.]
* In ''[[Goblins (Webcomic)|Goblins]]'', Kin is triggered [http://www.goblinscomic.com/04132012/ by being trapped under a tree], since she used to be raped nightly be [[Complete Monster|Dellyn Goblinslayer]], who was part-tree.
 
 
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