Living with triggers as a result of trauma can be fairly difficult at times. Life in general doesn’t typically come with a trigger warning, so you could be out in public minding your own business when something triggers you, sending you into a panic attack or worse.
Speaking from experience, it’s not a fun feeling when your day is detered due to an unexpected trigger attack. While life as a whole doesn’t come with a trigger warning, some things do, and oftentimes that’s media.
Media, such as movies, video games, live events, music, and more, have been disclosing trigger and content warnings as a way to give their audience a heads up to what adventures (to put it very very lightly) may be in store.
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