What Is The Trigger Warning

The topic of trigger warnings have been a hot topic amongst people. Trigger warnings are a warning or a statement that the following material or phrases could be harmful to the psyche of certain individuals about to experience the material. This spans across the average worker to professors at universities. This topic rose from about 2011 on the internet and has reached a high to where people are discussing their thoughts on the matter. Everyone has a stance on whether trigger warnings should be issued when discussing a potential topic that could cause distress for a student or anyone in a class. With the rise of mental health disorders being diagnosed in students, some seek professional help or a better diagnosis because of there helpfulness. Students have been at odds sometimes because of trigger warnings. The debate on whether or not to implicate them in a classroom setting is the main topic of the argument.

Trigger warnings are hurting mental health on campus according to Lukianoff and Haidt. For instance, Lukianoff and Haidt say that critical thinking involves students to question their own unexamined beliefs and sometimes the questioning can lead to discomfort, but this leads a way to understand. Clearly, we do not like to be put in awkward situations, but in reality, that is what has to be done, in order to learn and experience. Additionally, “Students with PTSD should of course get treatment, but they should not try to avoid normal life, with its many opportunities

Trigger warnings are used to alert people of topics that may cause emotional stress or bring back a past trauma. They are usually seen before showing graphic material such as rape, abuse, violence, war, etc. so that people sensitive to the material can refrain from watching. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt discuss the negative effects trigger warnings seem to be having on college campuses and the mental health of students in their article, “The Coddling of the American Mind”, going into detail about how avoiding certain subject material because it “offends” some people creates a poor learning environment and restricts thinking. Aaron Hanlon responds to this article with his own, “The Trigger Warning Myth”, arguing that there is no way trigger warnings are the cause of this mental instability. Both agree that emotional coddling can be detrimental to a student’s mental health, although Hanlon thinks there is no emotional coddling involved in trigger warnings. To make the argument that trigger warnings are forced upon teachers and cause more harm than protection to students, Lukianoff and Haidt must believe that the students ultimately hold the power in the classroom setting but are also narrow-minded. Hanlon, contrarily, assumes that teachers are the head of the classroom and that students are open minded to things that may make them question their beliefs and the beliefs of those around them.

Trigger statements are becoming more and more popular in syllabi, especially on college campuses. These provide students, especially those with post-traumatic stress disorder, with a warning about possibly uncomfortable content that could cause a flashback or panic attack. There are several different opinions about trigger warnings. Jenny Jarvie, the author of the article “Trigger Happy,” believes that they have gone too far and are a detriment to society (Jarvie 6). To enhance Jarvie’s point further, in their article “The Coddling of the American Mind” Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt explain how trigger warnings cause metal illness on campuses across the country. The opposing view is that they are necessary to have a fulfilling learning

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In Lindsay Holmes’s article “A Quick Lesson on What Trigger Warnings Actually Do,” she states that trigger warnings are misinterpreted cautions notifying whether or not a discussion could cause emotional distress, and often are not implemented for this reason. Holmes begins by recounting when the University of Chicago announced they would not be focusing on Trigger Warnings or safe places; although the university later tells expresses that their initial statement was misinterpreted, the author uses this to open the discussion on the importance of trigger warnings.

To begin with, what is a trigger warning or content warning? Both trigger warnings and content warnings can be used in place of one another because they stand for the same thing. A trigger warning is a warning that means there is a topic or idea that will be discussed or shown visually that could cause stress to some people. These can range from reasonable topics such as rape, abuse, or death. Those topics rarely come up in day to day conversations and contain some of the worst acts a human can do, and it is reasonable to offer trigger warnings for these topics. It is not acceptable, however, to require these warnings on everyone that talks about these topics. On the other extreme some people could claim to have been offended at ordinary topics that show up in daily conversation. A short story in Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s paper was about a professor, Francis Schmidt, that had received a suspension from a harmless action. This action was that he posted a picture of his daughter on Facebook, who happened to be wearing a shirt with a Game of Thrones quote. A student took this as a threat and complained to the school, how is a trigger warning supposed to be put on that? This is

Hanlon’s article focuses on the idea of trigger warning and how they are used as well as viewed on college campuses around college campuses around the United States. Hanlon makes a direct reference to “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt through the article bring out points that he disagrees with. Hanlon believes trigger warnings are not necessary bad when the professor uses them within the right context according to his thesis. He gives examples of when he uses them in his own classroom. In the article Hanlon also breaks down a few sentences from my original article to show how it is framed in a way to match the larger societal voice. The author’s argument as well as the article as a whole has a weak merit.

Trigger warning was provoked by a student who felt unsafe and was emotional affect by the content of the course. This issue has been here for a long time, four student that attend Columbia University brought the attention to trigger warnings. The professor dismissed the student and

Trigger Warnings In recent discussions of trigger warnings a controversial issue has been if whether American campuses should permit trigger warnings. Trigger warnings are admonishes that professors are expected to provide and imply that, certain contents in class may be upsetting or offensive to an individual. The objectives of trigger warnings are to prevent students from coming across “offensive” discussions, ideas, words, or anything that may cause students to feel an emotional affect. On the other hand, some argue that trigger warnings on course materials do a disservice to the intellectual development of students and interferes with an individual’s freedom of speech.

Trigger warnings, a label made to help those with every type of PTSD, do not help and are not needed in literary topics. Trigger warnings are not needed in literacy because most people see them as annoyances do to the fact that they a directed at a small part of the population and doesn’t really apply to most of the population. Also they aren’t that easy to place, almost anything could trigger anyone at anytime by any topic without anyone knowing beforehand what to expect. Finally even though they were made to help mostly people with PTSD, but when they see the labels they will most likely avoid those topics and avoiding “trigger topics” is actually a symptom of PTSD.

A trigger warning is something that is becoming a detriment to the educational system. Trigger Warnings are a warning that is given prior to talking about a subject or given to warn those about a subject that may trigger some form of post traumatic stress disorder. They have been a widely controversial topic lately and there is a lot of reasons why there are so controversial. There are many professors and students that are for trigger warnings and many that are against the use of trigger warnings. While they seem harmless when first speaking about them, trigger warnings are in fact a huge negative to higher education.

The definition of a trigger warning is a statement at the start of a piece of writing, video, etc., alerting the reader or viewer to the fact that it contains potentially distressing material (often used to introduce a description of such content). Trigger warnings are often used before a disturbing topic is talked about; such as rape, anorexia, abuse and etc. Without trigger warnings, many who have had traumatic experiences in their lifetime may be forced to face thoughts and memories they are not yet ready to handle. If they are used, those who have experienced traumatic events that are working through their mental health issue, are able to have a choice if they are ready to face the topic or not. I myself, agree with the claim that trigger warnings should be used in college syllabi.

Trigger warnings are being enforced around America in hopes of improving the way college students learn. Trigger warnings originated on the internet as a way to flag certain material that could be harmful to others. Many professors are now pushing for trigger warnings as a way to warn students that ideas within their material could offend or emotionally harm them. While they are being implemented across the country, their effects on students are proving to be more harmful than helpful because they often hinder students’ education rather than further develop it.

Triggers aren’t always about what people say or do though, they can also be a smell you remember from childhood or even the date of a traumatic event earlier in your life. A trigger can pertain to any of the five senses, however the most common triggers are sight and sound.