trauma visualized
as holes in the ground
you can't walk relaxed you have to be vigilant for you may step on to a hole or some sticky unstable patch
this fear of stepping wrong is the trigger. maybe
or as a memory of past exceptions
where the being threw an exception and didn't know what to do for a bit maybe it was scary. or embarrassing unsettling. causing a scramble
the being keeps looking at present and future through the past and worries about those same exceptions being thrown again