Can SI be triggered by something else? At work the other day, I had to wear powered gloves. The powder was making me alergic and my hands started itching real bad. It triggered a panic attack and I got scared and was trying to breathe and started crying. I tried to settle down and pick up some ice then touch something hot to settel my nerves. The allergic reaction triggered a bad panic attack and the itching caused my arms to itch. I tried to scratch my arms really hard with my fingernails and it left marks. Finally I went into the freezer at work and tried to scrape my arm with a r***r but I turned the b** c****r too much and cut my arm accidently bad. I didn't feel it for awile. I later told my manager that I had a really bad allergic reaction to the powdered gloves. She was alittle shocked at the places on my arms, though. But can SI be triggered by something else like severe stress or allergies, panic attacks or depression or something like that.