Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Scelly9]

It's not the world's responsibility to shield people with mental sensitivity.

Neither is it anyone responsibility to be a decent person, but most at least try to.

[Redzephyr01]

Also, just putting it out there, but having PTSD triggered by "politics" would basically amount to "You're shit out of luck". It's like having your PTSD trigger be, say, red cars: there's no way you're ever going to insulate yourself (barring becoming a complete shut-in in a windowless building), even if everyone you meet makes a tremendous effort to help you do so. Which is part of what makes me suspect that it's more tumblr special-snowflake faffery.

^
Same thing with swearing really. Although, I wonder what could happen to somebody that would cause them to have PTSD triggered by swearing...

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's not the world's responsibility to shield people with mental sensitivity.

Neither is it anyone responsibility to be a decent person, but most at least try to.

No, it's your responsibility to be a decent person. That's what society is based off of. Pro-social behaviors must be greater than anti-social behaviors, or there will be collapse.

Anyway, as for the tumblrites in particular, most of them don't have PTSD. They have "This bothers me so I don't want you to talk about it" syndrome. Or the dreaded "I want a justification to explode at everything imaginable, but fake Aspergers has become passe even for tumblr" syndrome. But what is absolutely certain is that the tumblr community does not mostly consist of individuals who were given a diagnosis of an illness listed in the DSM-V by a certified mental health professional.

[IronTomato]

I have a confession to make.

Bay 12.....I am Vector. I have always been Vector.

I have a confession to make.

Bay 12... I am Metalslimehunt. I have always been Metalslimehunt.

Also, just putting it out there, but having PTSD triggered by "politics" would basically amount to "You're shit out of luck". It's like having your PTSD trigger be, say, red cars: there's no way you're ever going to insulate yourself (barring becoming a complete shut-in in a windowless building), even if everyone you meet makes a tremendous effort to help you do so. Which is part of what makes me suspect that it's more tumblr special-snowflake faffery.

^
Same thing with swearing really. Although, I wonder what could happen to somebody that would cause them to have PTSD triggered by swearing...

How do things like politics and swearing trigger PTSD?

[Projeck37]

My friend accidentally misspelled angel with angle, while talking about a baby. It was quite funny.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I have a confession to make.

Bay 12.....I am Vector. I have always been Vector.

I have a confession to make.

Bay 12... I am Metalslimehunt. I have always been Metalslimehunt.

Get back in the box and wait for your cue, damnit!

How do things like politics and swearing trigger PTSD?

Anything is possible when you are a teenager on tumblr.

[Redzephyr01]

Also, just putting it out there, but having PTSD triggered by "politics" would basically amount to "You're shit out of luck". It's like having your PTSD trigger be, say, red cars: there's no way you're ever going to insulate yourself (barring becoming a complete shut-in in a windowless building), even if everyone you meet makes a tremendous effort to help you do so. Which is part of what makes me suspect that it's more tumblr special-snowflake faffery.

^
Same thing with swearing really. Although, I wonder what could happen to somebody that would cause them to have PTSD triggered by swearing...

How do things like politics and swearing trigger PTSD?

I don't know. That's why I posted that thing here.

[Scelly9]

It's not the world's responsibility to shield people with mental sensitivity.

Neither is it anyone responsibility to be a decent person, but most at least try to.

No, it's your responsibility to be a decent person. That's what society is based off of. Pro-social behaviors must be greater than anti-social behaviors, or there will be collapse.

So you don't thing that shielding people with mental sensitivity contributes to being a decent person?

[Vector]

Oh, I dunno, being screwed over by the government enough times that you end up losing a house or something?  Swearing because you were molested by someone who was into dirty talk?

I had to cut my long hair because it had become an indelible symbol of weakness.  Immediately after I returned to a healthy weight and a lot of my nightmares, panic attacks, and mood swings went away.  Similarly, blond men with a Northern European sort of look set me off and I usually have to excuse myself from the conversation.  That's just how it is.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's not the world's responsibility to shield people with mental sensitivity.

Neither is it anyone responsibility to be a decent person, but most at least try to.

No, it's your responsibility to be a decent person. That's what society is based off of. Pro-social behaviors must be greater than anti-social behaviors, or there will be collapse.

So you don't thing that shielding people with mental sensitivity contributes to being a decent person?

I don't think trying to coddle people with mental problems is a good thing. If you have an issue, you are going to encounter it outside of whatever "safe zone" you set up. The internet is by and large an open forum that you are not going to be protected on. The trigger movement are not a solution, they are a problem. Individuals with PTSD are best helped by following the advice of mental health professionals, not by rampant slacktivism.

[Vector]

I kind of think that maybe this is something you should defer to others on.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I will defer only to medical science. I'm certainly not going to take on faith something that is most known for being advocated by tumblr.

[Vector]

I will defer only to medical science. I'm certainly not going to take on faith something that is most known for being advocated by tumblr.

Previously it was most known for being advocated by feminists, and was then picked up on by tumblr.  That's why the rest of the internet now knows about it.

The reason why one doesn't defer exclusively to medical science is because menotoxin.  People's subjective experience of their own conditions is crucial in a world where power structures determine what is studied and from which standpoint.  Of course you can say "I can tell the difference between science and pseudoscience," but then you hold your own subjective experience high above those of others in an arena that is supposed to be objective, and you have already lost your battle.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

A person's subjective experience may have merit in the treatment of a mental disorder, but it certainly isn't the primary factor. It can't be. Mental illness by definition alters one's ability to perceive reality. And while we all have different experiences, the physical differences between the brains of individuals are low enough that what can be empirically determined is what can and must form the basis.

As for the menotoxin thing, you shouldn't be focused over it occurring or a bunch of laymen accepting it on faith because it was in line with their preexisting religious dogma. What you should be focused on is how it got thrown out and destroyed because it couldn't be backed up, and now in the modern day nobody with any education believes menstrual blood is poisonous (or at least not more so than any other blood). This is why deferring to science is the thing you should do when you don't have a good alternative. It doesn't care about what anybody thinks or what tradition says is true. It is the method through which we determine objective reality.

[penguinofhonor]

Maybe some people want to be able to just read and relax on the internet without being forced to face their psychological problems constantly? I don't think that's asking for a ton.

I'd be willing to bet that even people who are dealing with their problems enjoy getting a break from it.