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yes, I realize it sounds like something from The Onion..
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The safe space, Ms. Byron explained, was intended to give people who might find comments “troubling” or “triggering,” a place to recuperate. The room was equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies, as well as students and staff members trained to deal with trauma. Emma Hall, a junior, rape survivor and “sexual assault peer educator” who helped set up the room and worked in it during the debate, estimates that a couple of dozen people used it. At one point she went to the lecture hall — it was packed — but after a while, she had to return to the safe space. “I was feeling bombarded by a lot of viewpoints that really go against my dearly and closely held beliefs,” Ms. Hall said.
In trauma survivor support group, we learned the term secondary wound. It is true that some of the talks, discussion can trigger traumatic memories and it is counterproductive to the healing process.
HOWEVER, one of the options is to avoid situation like that. The students don't have to attend the debate session if the session becomes too intense or too "triggering" for them.
One great way to make your life unnecessarily hard and difficult is to assume that the world revolves around you.
These young adults are going to be in for a rude awakening when (if) they get a job and find that their employer doesn't have a room with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh for them to hide in when they're exposed to something "troubling".
These young adults are going to be in for a rude awakening when (if) they get a job and find that their employer doesn't have a room with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh for them to hide in when they're exposed to something "troubling".
Surely employers can at least have a video of puppies frolicking to ease their traumatized psyches.
(trigger warning: this message is going to present a critical view, reader beware.)
There is actually a business in brooklyn called preschool mastermind, where adults go to apply preschool activities like nap time, finger painting, glitter glue, show and tell, etc to help get through their adult challenges. This is millenials. They are destined to become the laughing stock of history.
In trauma survivor support group, we learned the term secondary wound. It is true that some of the talks, discussion can trigger traumatic memories and it is counterproductive to the healing process.
HOWEVER, one of the options is to avoid situation like that. The students don't have to attend the debate session if the session becomes too intense or too "triggering" for them.
One great way to make your life unnecessarily hard and difficult is to assume that the world revolves around you.
in my not so humble opinion, in order to "get over" something bad that happens in ones life, they have to meet it head on. avoiding it only puts off the pain of healing. and it doesnt matter what that bad thing, or things are, for instance my kidneys have failed to the point where i am on dialysis three times per week. now i could sit around feeling sorry for myself, and say woe is me, etc. but instead i dont let it get me down.
death smiles at everyone, marines smile back. i not only smile back, but i kick his butt.
This is an outrage that there are no juice boxes, binkies or someone to swaddle them.
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