Triggered Part 1
Added 2020-02-03 16:22:08 +0000 UTCI made a tweet about this a while ago but it's been uh, relevant to me again this week ( : This week's comics are going to focus heavily on specific mental health things!
I really hate how 'triggered' has become a word you can't use seriously anymore especially in online spaces. Even when I'm talking to my friends, I have to kind of poke fun at myself or satirise it somehow by saying 'triggd'.
I just always feel like I can never say 'wow I'm triggered rn' it has to be made into a joke like 'hey silly ol' me typical bex getting #triggd again hoo boy holy moly'. I mean I'm even doing that in this comic with the last panel. I like using humour to cope but also idk, sometimes I feel like I use humour as a disclaimer because I know I won't be taken seriously, and also it lightens the mood so if I'm having heavy chats with someone the humour is there to make them feel better (I tend to focus on other people's feelings over my own haha) but at the same time, I feel like using humour can be shooting yourself in the foot because like, if you don't take yourself seriously then no-one else will. If you go in guns-a-blazing funny-jokes haha good memes then people will assume you're more OK than you are oof.
Anyway that's a bit of a tangent but yeah I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about how people treat being triggered, as someone who suffers with PTSD (:
