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May 2024
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What do trigger warnings actually do?

PJ Vogt
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A listener’s brother dies by suicide, and afterwards, she finds herself angered by trigger warnings about suicide. She wants to know — are these actually helping other people? Or is it just something we do because we think we’re supposed to?

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