yea sometimes I come in and a post mentions something that triggers me. But the way I see it no one is forcing me to read each and every post and thread and no one can prevent triggering another person. For that you need to know each and every persons trigger and given that there are infinate numbers of ways of abusing someone and infinate number of triggers and what is a trigger for one may not be a trigger for another its impossible to avoid triggering someone.

For example One of my triggers is a certain mens calogne and my friend who was also sexually assaulted has no truble with mens calogne. her trigger is bath towels. Im afraid of the dark but another friend prefers dim and darkness.

So its basically up to each of us that comes here to decide as we come in what we are able to read and what we are not able to read that day. If something starts bringing me down I know that its time to lleave that post or thread for a bit and or leave the site for a bit and do other things - visit other websites, take a walk, go biking and so on to help take care of myself.

and when absolutely nothing is making me feel better I contact my therapist because those are the times when I should be contacting real time help - I may need medication or something burried may be coming to the surface or the last session triggered or stirred something up.

On line support groups are great and can help as in being a resourse tool but they are not meant to be used IN PLACE OF seeing a therapy professional.

Any forums - including Psych Central - I have been on contained a disclaimer label to this effect and stated when in crisis the person should instead be contacting their local professionals.