So, some background info might be necessary to understand what I'm trying to get at.

I wouldn't consider myself the most PC of person, and while I do recognize that trigger warnings are important for some people, I personally have scoffed a bit at the idea of needing trigger warnings, if at least, for myself.

But I do notice that upon reading certain kinds of material, (the latest example being, which also brought about this introspection, an article about Pete Davidson's struggle with BPD which included a trigger warning prior to mentioning one of his Instagram stories where he expressed his struggle with continuing to live on), I seem to involuntary cry.

It might not make a lot of sense, but the way I would describe this situation is that while my mind can be thinking something else, my body (and maybe subconscious?) seem to be reacting in another way.

This seems to happen particularly when I read about people who express sentiments like that of the aforementioned Pete Davidson's, whether it'd be in real life or in fiction. And the strange thing is, depending on the context, while I may not find some of the situations sad (for example, a character in a story might've come off cringy in their despair monologue), I still find myself leaking tears involuntary.

Long-winded explanation aside, I would hope to ask, to those who are more in touch with understanding triggers, is this me being triggered without knowing it?