The thought triggered a feeling of dizziness, as if the external world had sped up and was now revolving quicker and quicker around me. If, as the fictional Sean Parker argues in The Social Network, our future will be lived online, I thought to myself, then what will be the fate of these dissenters, of those who don't update?
For Goldsmith, a stop-loss order meant another 16 months in Iraq, and the thought triggered panic attacks at work that led to his adjustment disorder diagnoses.
And I ask, "How are my hopeless thoughts being triggered by my current emotions?" I stay aware of my thoughts with an understanding that emotions from the past are creating thoughts about the present.
These gloomy thoughts were triggered as I read Alex Finlay's recent book-length bee poem Global Oracle.
These so-called counterfactual thoughts are triggered by negative events where automatically alternative scenarios of the past suggest themselves (Roese, 1997; Roese, 2000; van Dijk & Zeelenberg, 2005).
This is followed by clarification of the situation and an elaboration on the patient's feelings and thoughts; what triggered the feeling; etc.
Once ruminative or worrisome thoughts are triggered in individuals with emotional disorders, they tend to persevere for minutes or even hours (Borkovec, 1994; Speckens et al., submitted).
This will distract your brain from the damaging thoughts that triggered the attack in the first place.
For example, nail biting is a common behavior, which occurs with little or no thought, typically triggered by the unpleasant feeling of stress.
This thought was triggered when we anecdotally observed substantial sequence homology at the exon intron junction of an intron in the pcn-1 locus that was lost in C. elegans, but was still present in several other nematode species.
