And I realized at work today that calling triggers "amazing" could be construed far more flippantly than I intended. There's nothing about being triggered that's amazing.

The science geek that lives in my head, however, found it amazing how determined our brains are to keep us safe: the amygdala ratchets down cognition (because in the face of a potential threat, thinking and evaluating takes too damn long) and ratchets up emotion (because that gets our attention pretty damn fast), all because it wants us out of there now now now -- because this circumstance is awfully close to that other circumstance where we were getting hurt, and our brain is trying to protect us, just in case. Better safe (and rueful, later) than sorry (or injured, or dead). (/biology lecture ::g::)

(I asked my therapist if that's why I can't add a column of numbers to save my life when I'm dissociating, even though I'm normally really good at math. She said, yep, reasoning is suppressed for a reason. So that's another thing I can stop feeling stupid for.)