I have a keen dislike for 'trigger warnings', because in all honesty, the people who put trigger warnings put them up for stupid shit. OMG theres BLOOD. Trigger Warning. OMG RAPE SAID THE WORD RAPE. Trigger Warning. OMG SEX. Trigger Warning. OMG JESUS HATE. Trigger Warning.
In all honesty, and in my opinion, they should just rename all the triggers in one thing.
WARNING: MAY TRIGGER BUTTHURT.
You were raped, it was painful, I get that, but if you are going to flail and go into a full blown episode because someone said the word online, you really, really need to get mental help for it. I'm not saying it to be a dick, I'm saying it because you NEED IT.
And fuck, if I have to put a trigger on the word rape, go to each and every Yaoi-fucktard and tell them to do the same.
Yeah, I admit I don't like certain topics. Does that mean I need a trigger warning? Fuck no. And we already have a 'Mature' tag for things such as sex and violence, so if you're going to be AFFECTED by those things, why the fuck are you LOOKING at them..
Now, someone's probably going to go 'BUT WAH POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER'. Yeah. I have it. But I get help for it. I don't flail and wail online about how a picture of a dying soldier sent me into a psychotic breakdown. In fact, it rarely does that at all anymore.
WHY YOU ASK!?!
Easy, I got help.
Point I'm trying to Make?: If you're being affected by something to the point you need a 'trigger warning?' don't baw and bitch at the people who are 'causing the trigger'. Get help for it, because obviously you have some serious, unresolved issues.
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I've been through trauma, a lot of people I know have been through WORSE trauma, but the internet is a place where ANYTHING can be shared. That includes "trigger" material. REAL LIFE DOESN'T COME WITH TRIGGER WARNINGS. If you can't handle it, you should get off the internet and seek psychiatric treatment for what is obviously a debilitating disorder.
Although, with the well known ones such as any kind of abuse, I suppose most people would expect the submitter to at least say "this will discuss abuse"... just to warn them. Even when getting help, they might still relapse or something. I won't go into the fact that some people find it hard to get some form of help :/
(oh god I don't usually do posts like this sorry for offending anyone)
Took the words right out of my head. As blunt as I may sound, I (among others) am not here to cater to other people's poor sensutiv peewins.
I am highly bothered by the "it doesn't affect me so it shouldn't affect you" attitude. It's erasure and it's painful. See you can be in therapy and still use the internet. You can be in therapy and still be triggered. You can be in therapy and never get better, some people just don't. Everyone heals at a different rate. I'm glad that these things don't affect you as much anymore, but who are you to decide what someone else and should should not be affected by?
So I can understand the frustrating in people who want trigger warnings for every little thing that they are annoyed by but to dismiss their existence because of that is horrendously selfish. Some people go into full blown panic attacks because of certain discussions. Does that mean they need help? Sure it does. I have come close to getting back into self injury over certain things I have seen online. I talked to my therapist about that and that helped — that does not mean that will work for everyone. I have had negative physical reactions to some things I have seen on the internet with no warnings at all. If you write or draw something you know could affect someone in a serious way and you do not put some kind of warning on it then you are being selfish.
So no. Don't tag every mention of the word rape. (You would have to put "rape" in the trigger warning, wouldn't that be useless?) But goddamn it you could at least apply warnings when you are depicting or talking about someone being violently attacked. Is that really complicated?