#Trauma

CW trauma responses, mental health, violenceTesting out the applications of trauma responses in games as an alternative to saving throws/sanity mechanicsI think it could provide more helpful ways to explore
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A pal asked for my opinion on the #Seattle homeless encampment sweeps (to help him be more informed in a convo w/his mom) so I'll share what I told him.
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Long-ish Mental health PSA: the trauma this is causing all of us, on both sides is legit. Also being done intentionally by a textbook serial abuser who sees the writing
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**Thread** Diversifying Portrayals of Trauma in Fanfic and other media (CW for PTSD, including references to my own)I remember reading a Tweet recently about how someone wished there were more
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I wrote about the fires and how no amount of empathy or understanding can adequately prepare you for the psychological, physical and sensory trauma of having the world immolate before
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Joss Whedon: hey everyone it’s me your woke bae!Whedon: ha ha!Angela Carter: you gotta lot of nerve showing up Whedon: gee wow, kinda weirdly hostile vibes tonight!Whedon: what’s up with
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Joking aside, this scene is a great example of classic #spn contradiction: Sam & Dean speak of themselves as Dean =closed book emotionally/Sam = always wants to talk feelings. This
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CW sexual violence, rapeI’ve spent much of my life and career navigating the myth of “gray rape.” The fact is, ANY unwanted sexual experience can cause trauma—even when it’s not
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re: Jeffrey Toobin stuff, one of the issues I've been having with the discourse around it is the idea that people have to "feel victimized" for something to be sexual
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!! Fictives !!(And common misconceptions.)Notes before we start: I speak from the perspective of an endogenic system. I also do *not* at any point in this thread speak for all
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Just saw a tweet about survivors guilt and I want to address that from a therapeutic standpoint. Survivors guilt comes having had survived a traumatic experience and feeling guilty because
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Confronting predatory behavior by established professionals in our industry never going to be an easy conversation. It’s messy & uncomfortable, especially when the people we’ve looked up to, worked with
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You know what doesn't help a person with anxiety? For you to tell them to just stop overthinking or worrying. It seems folks think anxiety is just a feeling, and
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In my psychology reading, the theories of Gabor Maté have really stood out for his work on trauma. He has a talk on how life traumas turn us into addicts
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Kind of hopeful for Tell me Why. Dontnod have consultants working on it, and have generally been good in the past. Implied trauma origin story seems to be a read
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The voight-kampff test measures empathetic responses. The questions asked are designed to elicit an emotional response. Most of the questions, in some manner, involve animals. Why does that elicit an
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