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Quoting vivadisgrazia, who made a very good point on the matter of triggers, and explaining their value from a therapeutic point of view:

>Trigger warnings don't solely serve to "allow" people to permanently avoid situations. They allow people to prepare for situations and to decide if they are ready to deal with them at a particular time in a particular setting. It's actually considered very therapeutic because it allows the person to prepare and to have the power to choose. Overloading or over exposing a person to a triggering situation can be very detrimental to their overall progress.

>>"Flooding" , exposure therapy or prolonged exposure therapy is a psychotherapeutic technique, used to treat phobia and anxiety disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder. It works by exposing the patient to their painful memories, with the goal of reintegrating their repressed emotions with their current awareness. Flooding is a faster (yet less efficient and more traumatic) method of ridding fears when compared with systematic desensitization. In order to demonstrate the irrationality of the fear, a psychologist would put a person in a situation where they would face their phobia at its worst. Under controlled conditions and using psychologically-proven relaxation techniques, the subject attempts to replace their fear with relaxation. The experience can often be traumatic for a person, but may be necessary if the phobia is causing them significant life disturbances. The advantage to flooding is that it is quick and reactive effective

I doubt many of the people questioning/laughing at this therapeutic mechanism actually delved into such finer points tbh.

Trigger warnings don't solely serve to "allow" people to permanently avoid situations. They allow people to prepare for situations and to decide if they are ready to deal with them at a particular time in a particular setting. It's actually considered very therapeutic because it allows the person to prepare and to have the power to choose. Overloading or over exposing a person to a triggering situation can be very detrimental to their overall progress.

>"Flooding" , exposure therapy or prolonged exposure therapy is a psychotherapeutic technique, used to treat phobia and anxiety disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder. It works by exposing the patient to their painful memories, with the goal of reintegrating their repressed emotions with their current awareness. Flooding is a faster (yet less efficient and more traumatic) method of ridding fears when compared with systematic desensitization. In order to demonstrate the irrationality of the fear, a psychologist would put a person in a situation where they would face their phobia at its worst. Under controlled conditions and using psychologically-proven relaxation techniques, the subject attempts to replace their fear with relaxation. The experience can often be traumatic for a person, but may be necessary if the phobia is causing them significant life disturbances. The advantage to flooding is that it is quick and reactive effective