Common Trigger Warnings
Below you will find a list (in no particular order) of common trigger warnings. If discussing one of these things, it is considered common courtesy to put a simple “Trigger Warning: [Subject]” before a post.
Please note: This is a work in progress. If there are any triggers you feel are missing, please feel free to drop us an ask.
- Swearing
- Rape
- Abuse (physical, mental, emotional, verbal, sexual)
- Child abuse/pedophilia
- Self-injurious behavior (self-harm, eating disorders, etc.)
- Talk of drug use (legal, illegal or psychiatric)
- Suicide
- Descriptions/pictures of medical procedures (even if they don’t contain blood or gore)
- Descriptions/pictures of violence or warfare (including instruments of violence, such as knives or guns)
- Corpses, skulls or skeletons
- Needles
- Discussions of -isms, shaming, or hatred of any kind (racism, classism, hatred of cultures/ethnicities that differ from your own, sexism, hatred of sexualities or genders that differ from your own, anti-multiple, non-vanilla shaming, sex positive shaming, fat shaming/body image shaming, neuroatypical shaming)
- Any time slurs are used (this includes words like “stupid” or “dumb”, which are still widely considered to be socially acceptable)
- Trans* degendering, or anti-trans* views of bodies
- Dismissal of lived oppressions, marginalization, illness or differences
- Kidnapping (forceful deprivation of/disregard for personal autonomy)
- Discussions of sex (even consensual)
- Death or dying
- Spiders
- Insects
- Snakes
- Vomit
- Pregnancy/childbirth
- Blood
- Serious injury
- Trypophobia (Link is safe.)
- Scarification
- Nazi paraphernalia
- Slimy things
- Anything that might inspire intrusive thoughts in people with OCD