Episode 84: Triggers and Trigger Warnings
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This is a deep dive episode where I spend the entire time talking about one topic of interest rather than taking questions from the audience. In this episode, I cover something that I've been meaning to talk about for a while, which is the word "trigger" and the term 'trigger warning".
I cover what the term "actually" means, where it came from, and my mixed feelings about the way that trigger warnings or content warnings are used these days. A the end, I also give some practical tips for when social media becomes too triggering.
Next episode will be either an interview with Brent Williams, who wrote the Out of the Woods graphic novel that I review here or just a regular Q&A. Please keep sending me your awesome questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:04.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:08.2 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:10.4 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:17.0 | So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it out |
| 0:24.5 | check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay |
| 0:27.6 | but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a |
| 0:32.0 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:35.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:40.0 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All All varieties. Welcome to the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 84. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California and the author of the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:10.6 | book series. |
| 1:11.6 | And today we are doing a deep dive episode which means |
| 1:14.9 | that I'm going just deep on one topic rather than taking questions from the |
| 1:18.7 | audience every so often I like to do that. Today I just thought of this while I |
| 1:22.3 | was doing my clinical work I was testing |
| 1:24.3 | somebody and they were going slow on a test so I you know was jotting some notes |
| 1:28.1 | down on a separate sheet of paper while they were answering questions and I was like |
| 1:30.9 | oh I have an idea. |
| 1:32.6 | And there it started and here we are. |
| 1:35.6 | So today I'm going to be doing a deep dive |
| 1:37.6 | about triggers and trigger warnings. |
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