Why Do People Blow Up Over Nothing?
Psychological Triggers
- Are usually caused by prior trauma
- Emotional response triggered by minor stimuli
- The person often doesn't know what caused the outburst
- Outbursts cause further harm to the triggered person
- Outburts harm relationships with other people
- Outbursts can traumatise other people
- People argue about nothing
Anyone who has been exposed to trauma is prone to being triggered.
Everyone Has Psychological Triggers.
Everyone has been exposed to some kind of trauma.
60 - 70% of people are exposed to significant trauma.
Awareness of psychological damage can be absent, but it is still there.
Trauma can be physical or psychological, but physical creates psychological.
Being aware of your own trauma triggers helps combat unexpected outbursts.
Understanding what psychological triggers are can help explain the unexplainable.
Knowing How To Handle An Outburst Helps
Understand what just happened.
Be understanding while setting limits.
Encourage reflection for the outburst.
Create safety for those near an outburst.
Support the traumatised while setting limits.
Stress Management Training Helps
Understand What Trauma Does
Understand Psychological Triggers
Understand How to Set Limits
Support Others
Create Loyalty
Improve Productivity
MEET NEIL
Unique Skills
Decades of experience helping people navigate conflict.
- Worked in general medicine and surgery, and specialised in psychological medicine.
- Consulted for various insurance companies and their client corporations on situations where conflict had created psychological damage and organisational dysfunction.
- Consulted for the Department of Public Prosecutions and NSW Police on matters under investigation and before the court to establish theories of criminal behaviour in those matters.
- Consulted for Veteran’s Affairs and the Department of Defence on both the impact of conflict on veterans and the risk to new recruits of future conflict.
- Consulted for defence counsel on matters establishing psychological reasons for their client’s behaviour.
- Consulted for Department of Corrections assisting inmates entangled in conflict severe enough to warrant prison.
- Consulted thousands of individuals who were being personally impacted by conflict; some internal, some of their own making and some imposed on them externally.
- Worked in hedge funds with mathematical models of market forces, largely aligned with conflicting sides of macroeconomic models.
- Legal and mediation training focusing on guiding parties toward win-win outcomes.
Now striving to help people live and work together by preventing toxic conflict through better communication.
MEET NEIL
A Unique Set of Skills
Decades of experience helping people navigate conflict.
Worked in general medicine and surgery, and specialised in psychological medicine.
Consulted for various insurance companies and their client corporations on situations where conflict had created psychological damage and organisational dysfunction.
Consulted for the Department of Public Prosecutions and NSW Police on matters under investigation and before the court to establish theories of criminal behaviour in those matters.
Consulted for Departments of Veteran’s Affairs and Defence on the impact of conflict on veterans and the risk to new recruits.
Consulted for defence counsel on matters establishing psychological reasons for their client’s behaviour.
Consulted for the Department of Corrections assist inmates entangled in conflict severe enough to warrant prison.
Consulted thousands of individuals who were being personally impacted by conflict; some internal, some of their own making, and some imposed on them externally.
Worked in hedge funds with mathematical models of market forces, largely aligned with conflicting sides of macroeconomic models.
Legal and mediation training focusing on guiding parties toward win-win outcomes.
