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Thoughts and prays to the emergency services workers who are called to retrieve the toddlers and young children hit by a tradies car driving to work on their private property.

There’s an uncomfortable conversation the trauma-informed industry needs to have.

Trigger warnings are starting to look a lot like ci******es in the 1950s: heavily marketed as healthy, socially virtuous and morally unquestionable long before the evidence actually caught up.

And now the evidence is catching up.

That doesn’t mean trauma isn’t real. It doesn’t mean people don’t suffer. I’ve spent decades in law enforcement and personal protection hearing victim statements firsthand — domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, coercive control, workplace intimidation, street violence, predatory behaviour. I’ve sat across from people whose nervous systems were shattered by what other human beings did to them.

Real trauma exists.

But here’s the problem: somewhere along the way, parts of the trauma-informed movement stopped focusing on resilience, capability, and recovery… and started building a culture around anticipatory fragility.

The research on trigger warnings is far more mixed than social media would have you believe.

A major 2024 meta-analysis published in Clinical Psychological Science found that trigger/content warnings did not reliably reduce distress or improve learning outcomes, but they did consistently increase anticipatory anxiety before people engaged with difficult material. Studies involving trauma survivors similarly found no clear evidence that trigger warnings improved outcomes for people with PTSD or trauma histories.

That matters.

Because when we repeatedly teach people to brace for emotional injury before exposure to uncomfortable information, we may unintentionally reinforce avoidance rather than adaptive coping.

And avoidance is not recovery.

Real trauma-informed practice is supposed to be about safety, empowerment, choice, trust, emotional regulation, and restoring agency — not encouraging people to see themselves as permanently emotionally breakable.

That distinction matters enormously in public safety environments.

In my world, capability matters.

Situational awareness matters. Boundary setting matters. Decision-making under stress matters. Learning to regulate physiological arousal matters.

You do not build safer people by teaching them to fear words before they’ve even heard them.

And frankly, there’s another layer to this conversation that nobody wants to touch because it’s socially dangerous to say out loud: Passive aggressive “what-about-me” personalities have learned to weaponise trauma language.

Over the years I’ve watched genuine victims finally disclose abuse, harassment, coercion or violence — only to have the conversation hijacked by people who instinctively reposition themselves as the real victim because they felt uncomfortable hearing about it.

Not harmed. Not endangered. Not traumatised.

Uncomfortable.

There’s a difference.

Some people cannot tolerate not being centred in every emotional exchange. So instead of engaging with the substance of what survivors are saying, actively listening, they redirect the spotlight onto their own emotional reaction to hearing it.

That’s not trauma-informed. That’s emotional colonisation.

And institutions increasingly reward it.

We now see workplace complaint systems, anti-bullying frameworks, and psychological safety language being strategically weaponised by exactly the kinds of manipulative personalities those systems were originally designed to protect people from.

Bullies rarely walk into HR and announce: “Hi, I’m the aggressor.”

What they often do instead is file pre-emptive complaints, claim psychological harm, allege tone issues, or portray accountability as “unsafe behaviour.”

I’ve seen this pattern repeatedly: The person raising legitimate concerns becomes labelled “aggressive,” while the passive-aggressive operator positions themselves as wounded, distressed, intimidated, or psychologically unsafe because someone challenged them.

And modern institutions — terrified of liability — often reward the performance.

Ironically, genuine victims are frequently the people least likely to weaponise these systems. Real survivors often minimise, doubt themselves, avoid reporting, or worry about causing trouble.

Meanwhile, highly manipulative personalities can become extraordinarily fluent in therapeutic language.

They know the buzzwords. They know the scripts. They know how to frame discomfort as harm.

That should concern all of us.

None of this means we abandon compassion. Quite the opposite.

A genuinely trauma-informed approach respects trauma without building an identity around helplessness. It gives people informed choice without ritualising vulnerability. It teaches grounding instead of avoidance. Agency instead of fragility.

And importantly, it keeps the focus on actual victims instead of allowing every difficult conversation to be derailed by performative “what-about-me” distress.

Because if every uncomfortable feeling becomes trauma… then eventually real trauma disappears into the noise.

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