 Hey guys it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today I have a really exciting video for you guys. I'm more serious than exciting but I'm excited to bring it to you guys and discuss it a little bit. As long as I've been making my channel I've been mentioning trigger warnings when I talk about a certain book. So for example I'll hold up under rose tainted skies and I'll say this has trigger warnings for agoraphobia, self harm, anxiety and depression and then I'll carry on with what the book is about and my review. So I try to do that for most books I read. Honestly I don't always state trigger warnings. I try my best but I do try to state them and I'm going to be making more of an effort going forward to state those but I have received questions about, I've been asked questions about what the hell those are, what is a trigger warning, why do I give them and what's the point. So I thought I would address it in this video today and as well I have some other YouTubers in this video that have sent me a clip of them and personally why they believe in trigger warnings and what they consider to be a trigger warning and why kind of thing. So this is a really important video to me and I really hope you guys find it informative and get a new insight from other people and yeah. So for me a trigger warning is a warning proceeding before going into a book. Trigger warnings are for shows and movies as well but if we're talking about books trigger warnings are something that's going to occur in the book, a theme that's going to happen in the book that readers should know before reading. Reason why is because if that reader has been through a certain type of trauma has just dealt with a disorder, it's in recovery for an eating disorder for an example, things like that. A book that describes a panic attack in depth could trigger the reader to have a panic attack. It's kind of what that means. The word triggered is often used when you're uncomfortable, it's become kind of slang like when someone says something about your parents you're like oh I'm so triggered but in all seriousness it's usually something to feel something in a book but not a good thing. Basically what can be considered a trigger warning? Usually it's anxiety, depression, self-harm, death is usually one as well. It's usually one that I don't mention. I feel like a lot of books deal with death but it probably should still be noted. Usually mental health issues are trigger warnings but there is some for sexual assault and rape and things like that which it's so important, it's so important for readers. I've read some pretty intense books that I've had to really take it easy reading them because of the triggering content in them like Under Roast Ainted Skies by Louise Gornel which I love. It's one of the books that I really hold dear to my heart but the anxiety scene, the panic scenes really resonated with me and were painful to read at times and that's why those trigger warnings are so important because you have to be in the right phase of your recovery or in the right phase of your life to read about that and it's not even just if the reader themselves struggles with this, it's if it hits close to home. For example a book dealing with suicide it may not affect the reader particularly but maybe it could in relation to one of their family members or some thoughts that they've had themselves, things like that so that's why it's so important. Hi I'm Rebecca from the channel Becca's Book Club and Julia has asked me to talk about why I believe trigger warnings are important. Trigger warnings are extremely personal to me. I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, clinical depression as well as obsessive compulsive personality disorder and I'm an avid reader, an avid watcher of TV and avid watcher of movies. One of my favorite books of all time is a book called Girl in Pieces however if I had read that book two years ago right after I came out of a psychiatric hospital that book would have negatively affected me. Lots of the books I love would have been detrimental to my recovery. The word triggering is used all over the place and a lot of people think it's ridiculous that we ask that reviewers, authors as well as other forms of media to give warning when things like mental illness, sexual assault, addiction to be included in these medias. If I had read these books or seen some of my favorite shows or movies back when I was not in the stage of recovery I am right now they would have brought back thoughts and behaviors that are not healthy. I think it's amazing that all these authors are bringing awareness to these issues because they're important but if people in the midst of their recovery are just starting aren't prepared to hear, read, see these things discussed then they're going to have the opposite effect than the author or the creator or whoever's talking about it wants. It is important to make sure you start any review with a trigger warning. Trigger warnings help to save my life as ridiculous as that sounds. I want to thank Julia for giving me this opportunity and bringing awareness to the fact that while trigger warnings might be annoying and overused they are still extremely important. Thank you to everyone watching for allowing me to share what I believe trigger warnings are extremely important. Bye. Hey everybody my name is Zariah and I'm from the Booktube channel Zariah Rose. In my life when I was 16 years old I was raped and that was how I lost my virginity. So when I personally witnessed a graphic sexual assault scene especially when it comes to like films or sometimes in books it immediately brings me back to square one. It can actually completely undo years and years of really really hard work to overcome my PTSD and put all of that behind me and I can reach a place where I'm extremely healthy and doing great and able to enjoy physical contact with the people I love and that I want to be able to physically hold and when I witness something like that it is kind of like being in that position all over again. The fear you feel is just as real so anyways I'm not going to keep rambling because I know that there are other people going to be speaking in this video and I hope that this clip wasn't too long but that is an example of a real life person who really needs them because it can undo so many years of work in your own journey and for some people that won't be the case but for people that it is to get that trigger and to be living through your experience all over again is crushing and truly no one should have to relive that experience or suffer especially when they're going to see a movie or read a book because they're there to be entertained. The world already is a very difficult place to live in when you are struggling with PTSD and that is just something that is so easy to make better for those people and it really ruins nothing those things should not be used as entertainment shock value and thank you for allowing me to share my experience with them and I hope it opens some eyes on how important trigger warnings really are. Bye guys. Trigger warnings are not something you see very often on social media platforms like YouTube and before videos you watch and in books you read and I think it's very important that we have trigger warnings. We have trigger warnings on movies, on TV shows, on the news. They say viewers discretion is advised. That is the exact same thing as a trigger warning. To me a trigger warning is a warning about sensitive or disturbing material that is going to be shown in the video or in the book or whatever you're reading or watching or doing. I think it's very important that the audience is warned about these things so that the audience can prepare themselves or choose to not watch the video. These trigger warnings can include self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, gore and violence and sexual assault and there are obviously plenty more. For me personally I am not as affected if there is or isn't a trigger warning. I'm not as sensitive to those things. I did deal with self-harm for many, many years but it doesn't affect me anymore the way it did but I think it is very important for people who are still going through those kind of things to have trigger warnings because it can trigger them to keep doing it or to have like a panic attack and stuff like that and like you just that's not okay. I am not sensitive to that kind of thing anymore if I was still going through that I would be really sensitive to it so that's why for me it wouldn't affect me but it affects other people and that is why I think it is so important to have trigger warnings. I just wanted to thank the people again who contributed to this I appreciate it so so much I'll have their channels linked down below. They are a lovely group of ladies and I highly recommend checking them out. A lot of courage to open up like that especially on camera so I really appreciate the ladies who did so thank you very much and again this was a discussion so please let me know your thoughts in the comments. I would love to hear what you think about them, your opinion on them, if there's hate I'll block you. So thank you guys so so much for watching and I'll see you super soon with a new video and if you don't you can follow me on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Goodreads. Anyways thank you guys so so much bye.