How to Ask for a Trigger Warning

[mvillarreal]

I know I cannot always get away from triggers, and I have to learn to deal with them, but triggers can really mess me up for days or weeks at a time when certain topics are discussed. Is there a way I can politely ask for some kind of warning before these kinds of topics come up? I feel like I should just suck it up and deal with it, but I can't just do that when there's a couple years of trauma behind it.

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Hi. I'll be interested to hear what others have to say about this.

You could set the parameters of the conversation ahead of time. If you can anticipate that such-and-such trigger topic will be brought up, you can say that you want to steer clear of that topic.

If you are not able to anticipate topics (like if you're talking to someone you don't know) and they start talking about a topic that triggers you, you could tell them that you'd rather not get into that. I had to do this on Sunday after church. We always have fellowship time afterwards and this guy came up to me wanting to talk about politics. I told him straight up that I did not want to talk about politics. Fortunately he respected that and went onto talk to someone else about it.

[Missy_D]

When we post and we believe we are posting something that can potentially trigger someone else we are meant to put a trigger warning at the start of the text and also in the title. Of course people may forget or don't think that the post is triggering so may not do this. The admins do try and pick up on this but its not always that easy.

It's a hard one to call but I hope this helps xx

[mvillarreal in reply to Missy_D]

Missy_D I'm actually talking more about in school and with friends, not specifically to this site. I feel like there's constantly triggers that come without warnings, and my triggers are weirdly specific.

[Missy_D in reply to mvillarreal]

Sorry, got the wrong end of the stick!