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⌈ Secret Post #2436 ⌋

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[The Book Thief, The Days of the Deer, Neil Gaiman's Sandman]

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[Macklemore & Ryan Lewis]

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[The Glades]

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[Revenge]

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[The Killing (AMC)]

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[Star Trek]

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[TRON: Uprising]

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[Paul McCartney]

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[Les Miserables]

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[Mud by Yamashita Tomoko]

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[The Beatles]

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they aren't always the same but for many people with certain phobias, they can easily be triggered by mention of or exposure to those phobias. a phobia is an irrational fear or aversion to something, whereas a trigger is generally accepted to be something that will push someone into an intense/damaging emotional response. it's usually predated by a traumatic past event but doesn't have to be. for instance i know a lot of people who have mild to severe emotophobia (fear of vomit/vomiting) and anything that references that act can set them off just like a more "standard" trigger. they're two different things, i agree, but they are often intertwined. thus, i think it's appropriate to (or rather, would be inappropriate NOT to) warn for fairly common phobias. anything that can cause emotional, mental or physical harm to the readers should be warned for beforehand, imo.

ETA: within reason obviously. i wouldn't expected people to tag/warn for something like dogs maybe?? i guess that's pretty common but... i guess just use common sense. at the very least don't go out of your way to hurt people.

Edited 2013-09-03 23:50 (UTC)

About the warning for dogs, I've seen posts on cute animal comms where posters rudely demanded that the OP put non-cuddly animals behind a cut

I'm of reasoning that if spiders and snakes have to go behind a cut because of phobias then all animals should go behind a cut

[ SECRET POST #2436 ]

Re: Difference between triggers and phobias

Re: Difference between triggers and phobias