Let’s Talk About What a Trauma Trigger Actually Is
The overuse of “triggered” incorrectly is worsening mental health crises for people with PTSD.
Tag: mental illness
13 Reasons Why “13 Reasons Why” is Dangerously Problematic
“It was supposed to be a show to get people talking about teen suicide, bullying, sexual assault and more. It was supposed to open and encourage dialogue between generations and demystify how insidious cyber- and other kinds of bullying can be in the age of social media. ’13 Reasons Why’ had many ambitious goals. Here are 13 reasons why it fails at every single one of them.” For Wear Your Voice Mag, April 2017.
Internal And External Displacement: Immigration, Mental Illness, and Netflix’s River
“Immigration doesn’t only externally displace a person from familiar surroundings, language, and culture, it also internally displaces us into a cultural and linguistic limbo that at times can be a horror to navigate. Lives become split into befores and afters, and even if you inhabit a closely-knit immigrant community, immigration forces us into liminal existences often on the social and cultural margins that create perceived differences between us and them, and even causes ruptures between us and the homeland that grow more and more apparent the longer one lives outside.” My 35th article for HuffPost, published in July 2016.
Kylo Ren, the Parent Wound, and Complicating Good vs Evil in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
“Abrams did a marvelous job of complicating the notion that just because you may fight for the side of Light, that doesn’t mean you’re a good person, just as fighting for the side of Dark doesn’t necessarily make you a bad person.” My 26th article for HuffPost, published in February 2016.
Why I Stopped Giving Unsolicited Advice
“I hadn’t realized what a heavy and totally unnecessary burden advice-giving had been for much of my adult life.” My 10th article for Huffington Post, published in August 2015.