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Further: the abstract says that their study suggests trigger warnings even go so far as to reinforce the notion that your trauma is part of your core identity. Who would have thought that glorification of trauma and avoidance strategies would run counter to the idea of CBT, exposure therapy, and self improvement?

Abstract (and link) to follow. Emphasis mine.

Abstract: Trigger warnings alert trauma survivors about potentially disturbing forthcoming content. However, empirical studies on trigger warnings suggest that they are functionally inert or cause small adverse side effects. We conducted a preregistered replication and extension of a previous experiment. Trauma survivors (N = 451) were randomly assigned to either receive or not to receive trigger warnings before reading passages from world literature. We found no evidence that trigger warnings were helpful for trauma survivors, for participants who self-reported a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, or for participants who qualified for probable PTSD, even when survivors’ trauma matched the passages’ content. We found substantial evidence that trigger warnings countertherapeutically reinforce survivors’ view of their trauma as central to their identity. Regarding replication hypotheses, the evidence was either ambiguous or substantially favored the hypothesis that trigger warnings have no effect. In summary, we found that trigger warnings are not helpful for trauma survivors.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.117 ... 2620921341

Damn, you mean classifying things negatively has a negative effect on people? Holy shit!


Having not suffered PTSD all I can picture is it being like someone afraid of dogs and every time there's anything even remotely dog related having people freak out about "TRIGGER WARNINGS" and giving the person more anxiety.

Holy common sense batman!

Do other people know about this? This could be the first New Totse Exclusive Discovery

I grabbed it from reddit's science sub

Sarcasm