Trigger Warnings
Trigger Warning Categories
The following list of trigger warnings is broad but not exhaustive.
Trigger warnings can range from the mild to the extreme - so please be mindful if you see a trigger warning.
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Abuse
- Emotional Abuse
- Controlling Parents
- Child Abandonment
- Locking up mental health patients against their will
- Child abuse
Addiction
- Drug Use
- Drug Addiction
- Alcoholism Alcohol/Drug Withdrawal
- Eating Disorders
Death & Violence
- Death
- Death of a Loved One
- Infant Death
- Animal Death
- Graphic Deaths
- Mass Death
- Murder
- Execution
- Honour killings
- War Crimes
- Torture
- Mutilation
- Threatening baby/child
- Violence against Children
- Physical Abuse
- Domestic Abuse
- Animal Cruelty
- Escalating Violence
Disability
- Lifechanging injury
- Ableism
- Ableistic language
- Paralyzed
LGBTQI+
- Acephobia
- Homophobia
- Biphobia
- Transphobia
- Bi-Erasure
- Internalized Acephobia/Homophobia/
- Transphobia etc
- Triggering talk regarding pronouns
- Deathnaming Character
- Misgendering
- Forced Outing
Mental Illness
- Trivializing Mental Illness
- Romanticized Mental Illness
- Panic Attacks
Racial & Religious
- Racism
- Racial Slurs
- Racial Profiling
- Slavery
- Talk of Superior Race
- Police Brutality
- Microagressions
- Colorism
- Prejudice
- Genocide
- Islamaphobia
- Antisemitism
- Concentration Camps
Self-Harm & Suicide
- Cutting
- Scars
- Self-Mutilation
- Suicide
- Hanging (by suicide)
- Suicide Ideation
Sexual Abuse
- Pedophilia
- Sexual Predator
- Sexual Abuse
- Incest
- Human Trafficking
- Sex Slaves
- Slut Shaming
- Body Shaming
- Revenge Porn
Other
- Doxxing
- Drugging Someone Against Their Will
- Miscarriage
- Forced Marriage
- Fat Phobia
- Kidnapping
- Hostage Situation
- Confrontation Rapist/Abuser
- Nightmares about Traumatic Events
- Miscarriage
- Abortion