People gotta grow out of trigger warnings... If the mere mention of something affects your mood that severely the solution is therapy, not just avoiding the topic for the rest of your fucking life.

Just my opinion.

So did you keep watching it?

The trailer alludes to almost all of that. If certain topics bother you I'd say be sure to watch the trailer or check www.doesthedogdie.com

Got it, I did not watch the trailer. I usually do. This time I just heard how scary it was and was so excited about it. Thanks for the info.

Why? It’s easy to just ignore the existence of trigger warnings if one doesn’t need or want them.

If something as small as a few keywords helps other people navigate life then more power to them. If only more of life’s problems could be solved so easily with no harm to anyone else.

Def use that website, it covers EVERYTHING

Yes, I did. I'm not complaining about watching just wanted to give a heads up ro others that could be trigger by it. It was a good horror movie!

I agree. I do think it's great that sites like doesthedogdie exist, but therapy is the answer here.

A few semesters ago I read that trigger warnings actually do more harm than good for readers with triggers

Edit: I believe I found the source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2167702620921341

Grow up.

I think you were triggered by my trigger warnings. Maybe grow out of that.

FYI, IMDB has a section called parents guide for every movie if you're trying to avoid certain content.

doesthedogdie.com is a very good source also

That's a mature take. You sure showed me.

Because if you hide and avoid your issues they just fester under the surface and become harder to resolve until you finally break. It causes more harm than good.

My opinion is triggers are there to give people an option, when there is an option available, to subject themselves to opening old wounds caused by those triggers. I never said to avoid it. I never said counseling wouldn't help. I simply watched a movie that actually triggered me, and I never get triggered. So I was trying to be helpful. Nothing was mature or helpful about your opinion.

I understand someone might see a warning and not watch or read something that further explores that subject in detail because that would be emotionally overwhelming. But this is kind of like making a speed bump to warn about a speed bump ahead. You just have 2 speed bumps now.

My point is if you're that hung up on past issues that you saw a movie and it legitimately triggered you - you've got some work to do, and if you run the other direction every time it's mentioned you are literally hindering that work. You need to go talk to your therapist, not Reddit.

Thanks for providing that resource. I read over it.

Counterpoint: Trigger warnings allow you to avoid something you simply cannot deal with. Therapy helps you become able to deal with it. Each has a role that the other cannot solve.

First if all therapy is not always so simply sought given how expensive it it. But secondly a lot of people are actively in therapy which can sometimes take a long time before a person can live comfortably without side effects or sometimes never live without any side effects. Things can still trigger these people. And during this time of therapy and treatment they are generally speaking still living their lives and doing things like watching movies. So I think you should be more open minded to the idea of trigger warnings. It's not all overly sensitive people crying for attention. Many many people have actual traumatic or otherwise experiences that they are actively trying to heal from.

And that is the most armchair psychologist way of looking at trauma. Everyone is going to react differently and also require a different treatment plan in order to best heal. Simply saying suck it up is so mind-numbingly lunkheaded it's literally thinking from a different century. How about we let the therapists and clients figure out how to best treat trauma and if that means adhering to trigger warnings for a time then what's the harm to anyone else.

I understand your point but I still find it counterproductive. I understand everyone's different but I resolved my childhood trauma through therapy without avoiding any triggers. When I felt "triggered" I talked myself through the situation and reminded myself of the realities - you're not actually back there reliving it and it's normal to feel this way when you're reminded of a traumatic event. You breathe, remind yourself you're okay, and carry on. It took a long time but I'm now completely at peace with my past and present and nothing in a movie is gonna dislodge my mental stability because I worked through it fairly healthily, one step at a time and didn't run from my fear. But again, everyone is different and if they help some people get through when they otherwise couldn't then all power to them, but I see far too many people leaning on TWs like a personality trait. Get help, people.

I never said to simply suck it up, but go ahead and put words in my mouth. Smh