[FRIAM] the cancellation arc

[Roger Critchlow]

There's a PTSD character in "Ministry for the Future" who is the sole
survivor of a mass climate fatality.  He doesn't have much success using
CBT to tame his triggers.

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:56 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for linking the trigger warning article. There's only 1 thing in
> there I can't abide:
>
> "At the college level, we don't believe the Holocaust, slavery, genocide,
> and other harrowing topics should come in two different versions: 'regular'
> and 'lite.'"
>
> Every intellectualized treatment of fundamentally *somatic* things is the
> 'lite' version of it. Book learnin' is all 'lite' versions. This is made
> obvious by those ASPCA TV commercials that show clip after clip of abused
> and neglected animals, with some soft, pleading voice begging for you to
> send them money.
>
> We can go round and round with the behaviorists about how there is no such
> thing as the internal mind and whatnot. But the value of being *slowly*
> exposed to atrocity, starting with intellectualized 'lite' versions, is
> obvious. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), where you are given some
> teachable skills to manage catastrophizing and such, exploits the
> relationship between the 'lite' and the 'heavy' versions of any givenn
> subject. It works, at least temporarily, for both healthy people and those
> with PTSD.
>
> I think the techniques of CBT should be taught early, like maybe 5th grade.
>
> On 9/16/21 6:09 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> > They also incidentally brought up recent research on trigger warnings, a
> crowd sourced clinical intervention for PTSD dating to the 1970's and a
> long time tough-guy bug-a-boo.
> >
> >
> https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work
> <
> https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work
> >
>
>
> --
> "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie."
> ☤>$ uǝlƃ
>
>
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