I'm glad someone raised the issue of 'triggers' being overused. As an uneducated peasant, it didn't even occur to me that the oversaturation of the word 'trigger' was diminishing the severity of the word. In my head, I was beginning to conflate 'triggers', 'squicks', 'content warnings', etc all into the same meaning. I'll definitely pay more attention to the specific terminology I use in the future.
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