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- Comment on Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference? 5 days ago:
What do you propose as the solution, then? Without any up-front disclosure of the triggering content being present, how can anybody make the choice whether or not to expose themself to it?
- Comment on Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference? 5 days ago:
There’s evidence that trigger warnings actually worsen anxiety and are counterproductive
I’d be interested in seeing these studies.
The way to treat anxiety is to face the source of anxiety to try and change your relationship and reaction. The best way to do this is via controlled access that exposes one to the trigger gradually in a context that has no risk of harm (eg a media depiction, discussing the concept, building up to discussing the source of trauma that led to the phobic response if applicable)
Trigger warnings enable active avoidance. This sensitizes one to the aversive stimuli and makes the phobic response stronger. As a result when one encounters the stimulus (eg a friend, family, celebrity etc commits suicide, suffers an eating disorder, etc) your resilience to the trigger is now even lower and the response is more likely to be more significant than it was before.
These two paragraphs seem to contradict each other. Controlled access in a safe setting like a media depiction sounds great. That’s exactly what trigger warnings are for. They tell you that the content is present in the media you’re about to watch. How can you possibly do controlled exposure without knowing if the content is there or not?
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 1 week ago:
I was reading Matt Parker’s new trigonometry book and they made some remark about triangles in spherical geometry and I went “wait, what if you did this”
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 1 week ago:
They’re not curved; the space they’re embedded in is curved.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 1 week ago:
I didn’t even think of that. Another good question!
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 1 week ago:
I’m not asking about a Dorito shape.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 1 week ago:
I don’t think that can be a thing.
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- Comment on Why doesn't Mongolia simply arrest Putin? 2 weeks ago:
I’m serious. I want to know exactly what OP is imagining would happen.
- Comment on Why doesn't Mongolia simply arrest Putin? 2 weeks ago:
How do you envision that going, exactly?
- Comment on Blackjack Game Development Company 3 weeks ago:
💩
- Comment on How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day? 4 weeks ago:
My bad, I was only thinking of my own experience. Cool that peas are so cheep though!
- Comment on How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day? 5 weeks ago:
Metabolism does play a part, but people of all metabolisms can lose weight.
- Comment on How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day? 5 weeks ago:
Beans and lentils are great for protein as well as being much cheaper than meat. You should definitely have them every day.
If you have the time and energy to do so, get dry beans and soak them overnight then cook them; they’ll have less sodium and give you less gas that way.
- Comment on How do I get in touch with the creator of lemmyworld or the one who was the first to create the fediverse? 5 weeks ago:
You asked anyway.
- Comment on How do I get in touch with the creator of lemmyworld or the one who was the first to create the fediverse? 5 weeks ago:
You can’t just ask other people to do your work for you.