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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Okay, well in that case it is either being used overbroadly or it's founded on a misunderstanding of neuroscience... the physical manifestations of psychological trauma are fundamentally different from problems with brain chemistry associated with things like bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders that are the product of genetics...
In other words, it doesn't make any sense to say "someone started talking about Ovid and suddenly my brain lost the ability to properly release serotonin, leading to an attack".
It's really good that mental health is becoming less stigmatized but the actual understanding of these conditions hasn't followed suit. Now people feel more comfortable talking about it, but it's producing misinformation and misunderstandings.
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Oh, I completely agree. It's more that triggers can induce panic, or cause you to go into fight or flight mode, but the way in which many progressives use the word really trivializes how awful the whole experience is.
The other weird thing is, if you talk to people who actually suffer from PTSD or anxiety disorders, triggers are usually pretty benign things and you just kind of have to learn to live with them. For instance, with me, the sound of a key turning in a door lock is a trigger. Doesn't matter where I am, if I hear that sound, my heart immediately starts to pound and my mind starts racing. That said, it's pretty easy to see how that could happen to victims of assault if they were listening to graphic descriptions of other assaults. I'm just not sure why you'd put yourself in that position.