Triggers Out With the Bad and In With the Good | Depression and Anxiety Triggers

his presentation was designed to help you identify and mitigate triggers for anxiety and depression as well as add in triggers for happiness.

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Objectives
 Identify PACER triggers for relapse, ways to prevent and mitigate them and steps to remind yourself to do the prevention activities.
 Switch focus from eliminating triggers for your addiction or mental health issues to ADDING triggers for health and recovery.

Triggers
 Triggers are sights (including people, places and things), sounds, smells, situations that make you think about doing something or bring up particular memories or emotions.
 Triggers can be positive. They remind you to do things that are good for you or make you happy.
 Puppies
 Push notification to remind you to do to a meeting or do a mindfulness check.
 Triggers can also be negative. They make you think about or want to do things that are not helpful for your recovery, cause cravings or bring up memories or feelings that are unpleasant.
 Alcohol in the house
 “Stress”
Triggers During a Crisis
 During a crisis people are at risk for the development or resurgence of mental health issues because there are so many things that trigger anxiety, anger, hopelessness and helplessness
 We will go through PACER triggers for distress that can be mitigated and for happiness that can be enhanced.
Physical Triggers for anxiety or depression