I never said to simply suck it up, but go ahead and put words in my mouth. Smh

I understand your point but I still find it counterproductive. I understand everyone's different but I resolved my childhood trauma through therapy without avoiding any triggers. When I felt "triggered" I talked myself through the situation and reminded myself of the realities - you're not actually back there reliving it and it's normal to feel this way when you're reminded of a traumatic event. You breathe, remind yourself you're okay, and carry on. It took a long time but I'm now completely at peace with my past and present and nothing in a movie is gonna dislodge my mental stability because I worked through it fairly healthily, one step at a time and didn't run from my fear. But again, everyone is different and if they help some people get through when they otherwise couldn't then all power to them, but I see far too many people leaning on TWs like a personality trait. Get help, people.

My point is if you're that hung up on past issues that you saw a movie and it legitimately triggered you - you've got some work to do, and if you run the other direction every time it's mentioned you are literally hindering that work. You need to go talk to your therapist, not Reddit.

Because if you hide and avoid your issues they just fester under the surface and become harder to resolve until you finally break. It causes more harm than good.

That's a mature take. You sure showed me.

People gotta grow out of trigger warnings... If the mere mention of something affects your mood that severely the solution is therapy, not just avoiding the topic for the rest of your fucking life.

Just my opinion.