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The different types of triggers

There are different types of triggers:

Internal triggers

This includes thoughts, feelings and attitudes linked to lifestyle problems. Internal emotional triggers include feeling unhappy, frustrated, bored, resentful, stressed and anxious.

External triggers

They are like an alarm sounding and could be something you see or hear. They might come from different situations and come from our daily routines. For example, walking through the kitchen might trigger us to open the fridge, or going onto adult pornography websites might trigger sexual thoughts about accessing sexual images of children.

Physical triggers

These can include drugs, medications, substance abuse and environmental factors. For example, drinking alcohol with friends may trigger the urge to smoke, or seeing a pop-up window about pornography may trigger the urge to go to a website containing images of sexual exploitation of minors.

Triggers often appear at the beginning of the cycle of offending and can prompt behavioural responses. Being aware of your triggers is essential to increase your ability to stop the cycle as early as possible.

On the worksheet identify your triggers – internal which includes emotional, external which include situations, sights and sounds, and physical which includes including any use of drugs or alcohol. It is likely that you will have several triggers. Sometimes these will work by themselves and sometimes they will work as a combination.

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