Triggered

How To Know When You Are Triggered (And Do Something Beautiful With That)

How To Know When You Are Triggered (And Do Something Beautiful With That)

Scrolling through the social media profiles of successful young men, an all too familiar feeling overcomes me: I notice my jaw tighten, a tingling on the top of my tongue, a tightness throughout my body, and a procession of thoughts that bounce between feeling alien and worthless relative to all the perfect individuals I’m witnessing, and a compulsion towards seeing their flaws or weaknesses and being superior to them (two polar responses coming from the same place of insecurity).