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Ok, just a general announcement.

ONE, "trigger warnings" are for COMMON triggers only. Things like talk of rape, abuse, child abuse, eating disorders, self-harm, serious drug use, and suicide are common triggers. Less common ones are homo/transphobia/gender dysphoria, blood, needles, knives -- or traumatic events (Holocaust, genocides, earthquakes, 9/11, you know what I'm talking about). Gender identity is not a common trigger. Food is not a common trigger. Mudkips (mudkips, really?) are not a common trigger. Someone just gave me a secret with a trigger warning listed for a whole movie. No. You are doing triggers wrong.

TWO, RFTM. Or the FAQs, at least.
They're right here: http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/104153.html
- Why isn't my secret up!?!? Question 4.
- Why is the subs post closed!?!? Question 9.
- How come my second secret got posted before the first!? Is it lost!?!? Question 7.
- HOW DOES I JOINED!? IT'S THE FIRST QUESTION.

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That's it. (:

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Hold on, I don't think you can compare those. Unlike alcoholics or drug abusers with alcohol and drugs, people with eating disorders generally don't want to eat, right -- like, a heroin junkie seeing heroin and needles might be reminded of how they really wish they could shoot up again and relapse. But someone who's had an eating disorder seeing a cake doesn't make them go have the disorder again, or they would already be struggling with it IRL, everywhere (whereas a direct mention of anorexia or wanting to be skinny or whatever might start it off again).

you're full of shit and have no idea what you're talking about. anorexia is not the only ED in the world.

Educate me, then! How could seeing a picture of food trigger an eating disorder that wasn't already present?

wtf are you talking about "if the disorder wasn't already present"? the fact that it's "already present" is exactly the problem.

ever heard of bulimia? ever heard of binge eating disorder? people with those conditions eat HUGE amounts of food and recovery is hard as fuck. the sight or mention of the foods you used to binge on can very definitely be triggering. that's why recovery is so damn hard, it's likely the foods you binged on are available EVERYWHERE YOU GO.

Of course I've heard of bulimia. But the thing is, with disorders like that, like you said, the foods you binged on are already everywhere. Then we get to, if you always ate ice cream and you're triggered by ice cream -- sorry, but that's not a common enough trigger to warn for for everyone.

It's shit luck for those with eating disorders, but the specific foods that trigger you are just that -- specific triggers. Someone could be triggered into panic attacks by balloons, but that doesn't make it common trigger. But "food" is really way too generic a topic to warn as for a trigger. What about "eating?"

(general you, not you, anon)

Edited 2010-06-26 17:48 (UTC)

the fact that it's not discussed a lot doesn't mean it's not a common trigger. you can set up your triggering policy however the fuck you want, it's your comm. but to laugh off the idea that food CAN be a trigger is straight up ignorance, pure and simple.

Hey, where'd I say food can't be triggering? All I said was

A) you can't compare alcoholism and drug-abuse to eating disorders because they don't work the same way.

B) specific foods are not common enough triggers to be common triggers, and food-in-general is way too common to warn for.

don't tell me how EDs work. i've been struggling with mine longer than you have been alive. addiction to food is the same as any other addiction, only you CANNOT EVER KICK IT COMPLETELY BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO EAT EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE TO STAY ALIVE.

i'm done. you're clearly ignorant and wish to remain so.

...ok

Different anon, and you're right, technophile.

FOOD is too common of a THING, let alone a trigger. How do people watch any television show or movie or go to the mall. Food is everywhere.

People with really specific triggers need to get a friend to preview the comm for them or something.

Food is not something you can avoid. Even people with food addictions do have to encounter food if they want to, like, survive. Alcoholics do not have to encounter food, nor is it in their natural environment on a daily basis. Are they both addictions? Yes. Do the triggers work similarly in regular life? Not so much. They're addictions which require wholly different approaches to overcome.

try

ed_ucate.

Well, I understand what you're saying, but with bulimia, it can be rather similar. Seeing a certain drug will make a druggie want to go and take it, whereas seeing certain food may very well make a bulimic want to go and eat it. That delicious food is likely something high calorie and self-loathing inducing, which in turn results in the purging aspect of bulimia.

As a disclaimer, I do not think one should post a warning for food as a possible trigger.