Posted by daisym on December 8, 2005, at 0:54:53
In reply to Re: The Green Light and my T » Tamar, posted by Gabbix2 on December 7, 2005, at 17:21:18
Sometimes these kinds of threads make me jealous that I can't "lighten up" around my therapy and my feelings for my therapist. It feels so complicated and important and fragile to me.
Other times, depending on my mood, I find this kind of joking offensive -- like someone else said, disrespectful of the therapist as a person or insensitive to someone who may have been hurt by a boundary crossing. This response is rare for me but has happened. (I'm not criticizing, it is MY issue, not the writers.)
Mostly, like all things here on Babble, I think we learn to read and/or respond to certain threads and to avoid others. Whether it is the subject line or a specific poster. And it isn't about agreeing or disagreeing with content, it is about protecting yourself -- sometimes a poster's struggle is too close to home and calls up too much pain for some of us to respond to. Other times we can't relate, and have nothing to really say. So for me, I choose to avoid threads that upset me (and that changes from day to day) because I think everyone needs to feel that they can reach out for support, have fun or be serious as they need to. I would hate for the writers to have to worry about the readers. I think the readers have to take care of themselves.
So -- I think trigger warnings would be really helpful. Something like "playful sexual content" or whatever. Or maybe these things belong on social?
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