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Originally Posted by CANDC
With all the care people take at PC not to say things to trigger emotions in others, I was quite shocked to hear that college professors are actually taking care to alert students to emotional triggers in the class or book content when presenting the syllabus.
See whole article here
Grappling With Trigger Warnings And Trauma On Campus : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
Do other people see new sensitivity to triggers in their work place or every day life?
How do people feel about the raw emotions of some television shows? I have to turn some of them off because they get inside my head.
I would be interested to hear about how other people are coping with all the emotional overloads all around us. |
I'm taking a class on young adult books. I've suffered from an eating disorder the past few years, and I know the topic of eating disorders or body image is going to be a topic.
All other topics -- violence, sex, drugs, religion -- no problems with them at all, but reading about other people's eating disorders just makes me want to get worse at mine, so I can "prove" that I can be as disciplined and worthy as the girl (usually) in the book, and it angers me that I'll never be good enough. So for my peace of mind, I have to do a lot of self-censoring. I hate that I do it, but I know my limitations.
I figure I'm just going to skip class the day they discuss body image, and hope I don't get stuck in the group that has to present that day. If I end up there by default, I'll just have to beg to switch to another group, because I cannot handle it. (But thank god that it's concentrated on one day.)