[ SECRET POST #6270 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6270 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you actually are in a tiny minority. I recall reading a study a few years ago that found that yours and OP's reaction is in fact the more common one: the presence of a trigger warning tends to create more anxiety than the absence of one, because it inspires a sort of hypervigilance in the reader/viewer/etc.

[sabotabby]

Really? If you come across the study, I'd love to read it. I get into discussions of this relatively frequently, and people seem to think that I'm making it up (leading me to believe that this kind of anxiety reaction is uncommon).

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is the one, but I'm not entirely sure, because it looks like there's now been a lot research on this subject:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30843709/

They found that anticipatory anxiety increased when people were warned before viewing material, which canceled out the intended effect.

In trying to find it, I happened across the one below, which I feel is even more interesting. They found that when people with PTSD were given trigger warnings, it either did nothing at all, or made things worse: "We found substantial evidence that trigger warnings countertherapeutically reinforce survivors’ view of their trauma as central to their identity."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2167702620921341

[sabotabby]

Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

That makes sense, since trigger warnings are supposed to be a way for someone to choose whether or not to engage with a thing based on what might trigger their PTSD or other mental health issues.

If you're going to engage with something that you know has content that's probably going to bother you and you're prone to be anxious about it, the trigger warning's just going to give you something to worry about until you get to the troublesome part. Meanwhile, if the content is something that makes you anxious, but not badly enough for you to nope out altogether, you're more likely to read the troublesome thing and shake it off.