• HelixDab2@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    I have been triggered before. I have some religious trauma. The thing that triggered me was not overtly religious, but reminded me so strongly of the religious programming I’d been subjected to that I ended up having a very irrational and disproportionate response to it. It took a few minutes for me to put together why I had such a visceral response to something that most people would see as neutral.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      It took a few minutes for me to put together why I had such a visceral response to something that most people would see as neutral.

      Probably a decent rule of thumb for identifying when someone is triggered … when their behaviour is suddenly and inexplicably extraordinary to the point that they don’t even know what happened (and probably really don’t want to talk about it)

      Which if true (I don’t think I have nearly enough experience here) might be a helpful framing so that whenever something like this happens, and it isn’t a repeated asshole behaviour or something, you know that you’ve got someone dealing with trauma and can help and accommodate accordingly.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    I’m triggered by automated TV demos. Not like demonstrations on TV, but automated sequences that are displayed on the TV for marketing purposes, specifically for selling the TV and showing its features. I find it difficult to write but phrases like “why this should be your next TV” are integrally linked with trauma for me. There are no trigger warnings for stuff like this in life. I just have to deal. I’ve gotten better though over the years.

    I accidentally entered this mode on the family TV as a child by pushing a button combination with just the right timing. I didn’t know what I did wrong but I thought I had broken our new TV. For context, I actually was responsible for breaking the TV just before this one. I had a day of fear combined with being beaten that evening and for a few evenings after for ruining our new TV. I watched the same advertising sequence play over and over and over for hours trying to understand what I did wrong but I couldn’t understand. The concept of a product demo just didn’t occur to me at that age.

    Sometimes a TV advert will hit just wrong and it feels like I can’t breathe. I’ve been able to help it a little bit by watching TV advertisements over the years and it’s gotten to the point where I feel terrible but I can still be functional. A few years ago I stumbled upon the exact TV demo on YouTube. I had never felt such visceral horror in decades. I forgot that I could even feel that awful. It was the scariest video I’ve ever seen in my life.

    I know there are far worse things that can happen to a person. I’m sure that for some reason I was just extremely sensitive about this life experience maybe at just the right formative period, but I can’t control the physical reaction that TV advertisements can have on me. It can elicit a response of pure terror from nowhere. This is what I think of when people tell me that they have a genuine trigger. I imagine it as this thing that just defies logic, just this physical terrible and intense response that you can’t control.

    • mossy_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      I’m sorry you were raised in an environment that heaped so much stress on you, but I appreciate getting to hear about a trigger from a firsthand source.

    • Ava@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      Thank you for sharing your experience, it’s a fascinating anecdote.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      EDIT: After a cursory search, it seems there are a good deal of papers indicating that around 50% of all medical advice of all kinds on TikTok contains serious and often dangerous falsehoods.

      I’m surprised it is only 50% for a social media site.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        4 months ago

        I think that Facebook is a bit harder to do this kind of study on … anyways, Im tired now, you do it lol.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    “ab*sive”, really? The author or editor felt the need to censor “abusive” in a graphic about psychology?

    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      It’s a good sign that you can just completely ignore the graphic because whoever wrote it is a dft cnt

    • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.comEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      i’m not sure this applies to image posts, but i really hate people censoring words like this in text posts. I think slurs should at least have some kind of spoiler warning but for any other words it just makes the posts harder for those affected to filter out.