'Triggering posts'

No you're awful. Clearly triggering people's nausea response

And I am not?

IAmZombie gets away with it. She's nice

It's beyond ridiculous

No wonder us 'mothers' on mumsnet are mocked. This whole websites reputation is nosediving

I am seriously shit scared of spiders, one woman had a post with 'guess what is in my garden?' With a massive photo (in my head) of a stripey spider. Couldn't give a toss to be honest! Made me jump though

If you do crumpet then maybe IamZombie will have to for Soubriquet!

Trigger warnings should be reserved for the most traumatic discussions only, and even then I think a well worded title is better than the horrible phrase "trigger warning".

As for the aversion to holes, unfortunately this can be surprisingly debilitating. Unbeknown to us at the time our daughter developed an aversive reaction to pocked patterns and within about ten years she began to avoid certain scenarios such as a path at school where acorns had upended in a puddle, certain foods, etc. We used to laugh a bit about it and then one day it dawned on me that her avoidance and discomfort when she couldn't avoid it had grown and weren't funny any more. As horrid as it it (was), exposure is the only way to get control of this sort of thing. She is much much better now, thank goodness :)

I am petrified of Zombies.

Honest to god. I can't watch any zombie based film as I get nightmares. If someone posted a photo of a zombie, I would probably just close the thread. No beed for drama

So my name should in fact be #triggerwarningcrumpet? I've had this name for over 12 years on MN and am not minded to change it...

Other people's phobias are always daft to us.

Proper actual real phobias I have utter sympathy with.
Making a big show of finding pictures of holes unnerving I don't.

FFS

Other people's phobias are always daft to us.
I try to help people scared of spiders out by being the catcher-and-thrower-outer. I hope they will repay me by removing pictures of the thing I'm scared of from magazines. There are some pretty common phobias and I don't see the harm in warning people in your thread title, especially now we can post pictures.

Skittles are clearly evil.
I will eat them all for you

I once snorted a skittle up my nose by accident and it hurt a tiny bit. I will not die happy until every single individual skittle in existence has a tiny trigger warning printed on its Arse.

My PTSD diagnosis following a public serious assault meant I underwent a year of therapy so intense I contemplated suicide weekly. If anyone feels that way about holes fair enough,but the trigger warning were supposed to stop people in that situation from being thrown over the edge.
It would be impossible to warn everyone of everything someone might find offensive.

beyond that's a good point. Literally every thread could contain something someone somewhere has a phobia of.

The ones on threads about snakes, spiders and bugs particularly annoy me. It just plays up to the squealing, hand flapping hysteria which means a thread just gets filled up with people expressing their discust in increasingly elaborate ways.

Crumpet crumpet crumpet. Word looks wrong now!

Plus it's completely pointless anyway, as if you have ptsd just the word can trigger you. So by the time you read "trigger warning - this post has a fucking crumpet in it" you're already set off by reading the word crumpet.

I think there is a massive misuse of the term phobia.
A genuine phobia is a dreadful and debilitating mental condition.

Finding little holes a bit creepy is not a fucking phobia. It belittles people who do have a genuine phobia.

It's like when people say they are allergic when they are actually intolerant. It makes people take life threatening allergies less seriously.

And don't get me fucking started on 'a little bit OCD'.

It's only on mumsnet that posters moan about seeing holes ffs.

MNHQ had to put a triggering warning on my thread about the grass snake in my garden because someone said they dropped the ipad when they saw it and it broke and their DH shouted at them.

FFS.

Trigger warnings are for ptsd not bloody phobias. You can be phobic of anything (and in fact, can have ptsd over anything)

Bloody nanny state.

Oh and electroshock therapy is still used - it does actually work on some treatment resistant depression. "We know better now" is not entirely accurate. Like writing "trigger warning" because of a phobia, for example...

Is a photo of a crumpet on the thread? I'm not bothered by crumpets but those lotus flower things are the stuff of nightmares.

Maybe phobia alert would be a better phrase than trigger warning?

I don't give a crap if psychiatrists think it's not real! I've experienced it since I was a child and it's horrible.

This is a little lengthy but it's a good take on the issue www.xojane.com/issues/trigger-warnings-content-notes-and-harm-reduction