To ask if you actually hide threads because their content distresses you as opposed to just not reading it?

[QueenofmyPrinces]

There are some posts where I read the OP and the following replies which for a variety of reason then make me feel uncomfortable and actually a little upset at times.

I then have to hide these threads because I don’t want to see the thread title on the page because I don’t want to be reminded that a discussion around the topic is taking place.

For example I had to hide the Jamie Bulger thread the other day and this morning I’ve had to hide the thread about the 8 week old baby being left to cry itself to sleep at night because both topics upset me.

I told my DH that I do it and he thought it was a bit extreme and told me to just not read them but sometimes that isn’t enough for me.

Does anyone else do it??

Sorry postef too soon. I knew the James bulger stuff would do my head in.
How do I hide posts?

I've been ignoring any Jamie Bulger threads as I remember being very young and triggered by this as a child. I don't hide threads though.

A while back there was a description of a child sex abuse film on here without a trigger warning and it affected me really badly so I really carefully select what I read now to avoid that level of upset

I hid loads around election time because it was a never-ending stream of Conservative-bashing & I wanted to read a proper AIBU (nannygate, CF neighbours etc)

I just ignore them. But then, rarely does something distress me from just reading it. If it does, I just click away. The title alone wouldn’t upset me. Unless it was something heinous, and then MN would probably intervene anyway. My standards of acceptable are about theirs too it would seem.

Yes I hide them. I've also hidden the James Bulger one. If you are able to ignore or not get bothered that's fine but some people are more sensitive.

My own particular MH status at a particular time does have an effect on how I can process distressing things and sometimes it's better not to even read a thread title over and over again as it pops up.

I hide loads. Some because it's just an awful story. I hide more because they are winding me up rather than distressing me though. Or I have a minority opinion but I don't feel like saying so (but may get tempted); so remove the temptation.

I'd also like to be able to do it without opening it.

You can do this from Active Conversations in a web browser. The Hide button looks like a grey square with a minus sign inside it - it's to the right of the title/date of the thread.

I’m so relieved to see I’m not the only one but also feeling bad for all those who have also posted who are affected by some contents. Some things I just can’t bear to think about so I just hide the thread and try and put it out of my mind.

I do hide threads. There are some that upset me just by reading the title, so they go. I have a lot of baggage I suppose, and they are usually about things that I have experienced and been traumatised by.

Other times I just scroll on by.

Sometimes I will hide threads I want to post on, but know it is better not to......

But I read the James Bulger thread. I was already aware of the grim details of the case because I once read about it in a book. The book upset me a lot and I can't read it again, but the thread was interesting because of the polarised views of the posters crying 'they're evil' vs 'they were poor abused children'. I'm a survivor of child abuse and was abused by an older brother (who was never abused himself) so it made me feel quite weird to read it.