When you are triggered by your Facebook friends: Staying out of abusive interactions on social media
Love and Abuse
Paul Colaianni
4.6 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
If you've never gotten triggered by someone's post on social media, you may be one of the lucky few. It's those times you can't help but give your opinion to someone you know is wrong or completely ignorant.
What can happen nowadays, especially in a heated political climate, is friends are lost, hearts are broken, and stress and upset reign supreme.
In this episode, I compare the Facebook conversation to an abusive relationship and highlight how you are actually inserting yourself into an abusive interaction when you choose to react from a triggered space to someone you disagree with.
Lots of similarities to the relationship experiencing emotional abuse. Love and abuse is the official podcast of The M.E.A.N. Workbook at loveandabuse.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Love and Abuse, the show about helping you identify poisonous communication and toxic behavior. |
| 0:07.4 | You deserve to be treated with respect and kindness. |
| 0:10.9 | That's why it's important that you learn to pinpoint manipulative and controlling behavior so that you keep your power and your sanity. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm your host, Paul Koliani. |
| 0:31.2 | Thank you. power and your sanity. I'm your host, Paul Koliati. Welcome to another episode of love and abuse, and I just want to let you know that all |
| 0:35.1 | information on the show is meant for educational purposes only. Always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being. And I just want to let you know that all information on the show is meant for educational purposes only. |
| 0:37.9 | Always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being. |
| 0:41.2 | And I'm going to talk about something that I read in the empowerment group over on |
| 0:47.2 | Facebook. |
| 0:48.0 | I have a group called the Overwhelmed Brain Empowerment Group. |
| 0:50.7 | If you're interested in joining that, you certainly are welcome to do that. |
| 0:54.9 | What that group does is talk about almost everything that comes to mind as far as going through |
| 1:00.7 | any type of personal growth and well-being and dealing with family, dealing with toxic people, |
| 1:05.3 | dealing with personal challenges, and people go on there and they ask questions and they get |
| 1:10.5 | really great advice from, I think, a bunch of smart people. |
| 1:14.6 | The people who join that group, I think, are just brilliant. |
| 1:18.0 | So I watch the feed and I can't participate too often, but sometimes I do. |
| 1:23.6 | And somebody asked, hey, Paul, how do you deal with wanting to react and respond to people's |
| 1:30.6 | Facebook posts? And I thought, wow, that's definitely a trendy topic. That is definitely where we are |
| 1:38.0 | today in today's atmosphere. Somebody posts something especially political and there is an ensuing, I wouldn't even call it a debate. |
| 1:46.9 | I would call it a flogging. |
| 1:49.7 | I would call it aggressive, almost verbal violence that can happen. |
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