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Your request is absolutely valid, you’re not a bad person for having that trigger or wanting to have it tagged. We absolutely won’t publish your asks if you don’t want us too, and we’ll be here if you ever need more help.

If someone you know has a trigger or asks you to tag a trigger, they do not owe you any explanation for why. They don’t have to explain their trigger to you or give you the backstory as to why they have it or anything. You don’t have to know that information to tag the trigger. Just please, be respectful of people and tag things for them without demanding to know why or making someone feel as though they owe you an explanation.

I figured I’d let the professionals handle this one because I have less experience with it, so

how to talk to people and open up in the beginning

how to set boundaries 

more on how to set boundaries

ah frick what do I do about communicating feelings 

Also please note that for the above, one of the steps in this and in many articles is “understand your feelings.” Remember that “I don’t know,” “I’m confused,” and “This makes me feel a vague kind of negative way but I don’t know why” are all valid feelings. Understanding and expressing that you don’t understand your own feelings can help you and the other person(s) adapt and listen to you more, and you can do the same for them, even if you don’t have a true understanding of what is going on.

Hope this helps!

Remember that if you see a positivity, recovery, or healing type post, or a calming gif/image/video, feel free to submit it, tag this blog, or send it to one of the mods! We’d love to have more interaction with you guys and also it’s getting harder to find good posts to queue, we’d love the help.