RIP

[Montegriffo]

what is this? fucking stop and frisk word police?

AM I BEING DETAINED?

No. Stop. If you say triggered, I'm going to assume you are the one feeling triggered. That's all. I'm explaining my actions, because you don't understand how to use the word. Being triggered is an actual thing. That's all. Use it all you like, but I'll always assume you are talking about yourself. I don't think you have enough ESP to know if someone else is feeling triggered.

Tell monte to move over, this one needs a safe space too.

sheeesh.

Okee forgot to deliberately misspell my name!
Are you stressed about something which is taking your mind of your game Okee?

[K@th]

Snowflake college students who somehow conflated getting their feelings hurt to the real triggers that happen to a fraction of percentage of the population that actually has the issue is the problem here. Because of that, we have not only a right, but a duty to mock them.

I ignore them. We're supposedly less childish here, but, keep on keeping on, I guess. I prefer not to fight childishness with childishness, but this is who we are, now. We just put a giant man-baby in the WH.

Carry on.

[Speaker to Animals]

Traumatic triggering refers to PTSD, not bipolar narcissistic disorder.

[K@th]

Stop speaking authoritatively about shit you know nothing about. Triggers exist for many conditions, including bi polar, autism, addicts, PTSD... there are more.

Bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme shifts in mood — from high moments of grandeur to deeply depressed lows. ... Understanding what triggers mood swings and planning ahead to deal with them can help you avoid a damaging episode of mania or depression. One of the most common bipolar triggers is stress

[Speaker to Animals]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_trigger

[K@th]

http://www.webmd.com/bipolar-disorder/g ... d-swings#1

I'll see your Wikipedia article and raise you to Web MD. (A site my doctor trusts.)

[Speaker to Animals]

That's not the same thing at all. Doctors speak of there being triggers to my chronic pain too. It doesn't mean I am going to fall on the ground with a flashback to the Tet Offensive if the barometric pressure drops too fast.

The word trigger, as it is being used in this context, refers to events and speech that trigger PTSD symptoms. That's all it has ever meant. Rape victims, for instance, can be potentially be triggered into an episode of PTSD (if they have it) by exposure to depictions of rape violence.

[K@th]

I guess you've never witnessed a bipolar meltdown.

[Speaker to Animals]

I guess you've never witnessed a bipolar meltdown.

I don't deny bipolar people have problems. I am pointing out that, in this context, that's not what triggering means.

Whatever triggers your meltdown is not something that "triggers" a traumatic memory that causes you to have a PTSD episode.

Just like whatever triggers my pain to shoot through the roof is not something that triggers a traumatic memory.

The sense of the word as used in both of our illnesses is not the same as it is used for rape victims.

It's certainly possible that you have some issues with traumatic memories being triggered, but that is aside from bipolar disorder, and I don't see how using the word trigger itself is a trigger for traumatic memories.

[K@th]

I guess you've never witnessed a bipolar meltdown.

I don't deny bipolar people have problems. I am pointing out that, in this context, that's not what triggering means.

These special snowflakes don't feel triggered by traumatic memories. They are having group meltdowns over their hurt feelings. Very much like a triggered meltdown, but fake in the sense that they are intentionally having their childish meltdowns. People with autism, bipolar, etc., can't just start or stop a meltdown.