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Originally Posted by Patagonia
I haven't read every reply. Sorry.
But wanted to state that I do like to hear the younger generation toss around the word "triggered." I really don't think they understand what it means or use it correctly.
I've had to tell my own DD that it's a term regarding MH & ptsd. Not just something that upset her.
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I agree that this term has come to be totally misused. Every instance of someone being upset or offended is not necessarily an episode of being "triggered."
This is similar to how the term "acting out" has come to be misused and over used. Not every instance of a child misbehaving is a case of the child "acting out."
People throw both these terms around without the slightest understanding of what they originally meant.
It's part of what I would call a victim mentality. People will say they were "triggered" as a way of claiming that someone deliberately exacerbated their psychic pain.