Listing the Triggers in Criminal Minds

[gsyh]

"Into the Woods" is on my TV right now, and I looked it up on the CM wiki, and decided to skip it the way I skipped "P911", and wish I had skipped "Hope". I know there are probably some people who skipped the pyro episodes even if they didn't the others, because the result of burns are their last straws, everyone have different ones, let's make a

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Different things trigger different people

[gsyh]

Which is why I separated them by category. Most of the stuff up there, aren't triggering for me. I've seen irl picture of burns, and usually without feeling like I was going to throw up, even though intellectually I understand it's horrible. That's ME, some other people, like the commenter above you, have a problem with the burn episodes. Different people have different fears, there are probably a lot of fans who have an episode or two they will never watch, or which they wish they haven't.

Necrophilia is commonly portrayed as a bigger line crosser than rape of a living person, and while it's gross, I always found it puzzling why interference with a hunk of dead meat would be view as WORSE compared to injury done to a PERSON. Hey, if I'm going to be murdered either way, I'll prefer it if it was the first thing done. So this doesn't squick me. Not everyone feels the same way.

...and personally, for me, I don't find the portrayal of rape as a trigger in itself, though it is something I'm afraid of irl, I read vampire fantasy novels, if you know what I mean. Sexual slavery however, is triggering, although depending on how the story goes, I might not skip it.

Things that I'm ABSOLUTELY going to skip (or wish I had skip, if I had know): "P911", "Into the Woods", and "Hope".

I could actually rewatch "What Fresh Hell", because to me, that was the show where the BAU rescued the girl and returned her to her loving family, she smiled a bit when Gideon gave her the toy before he carried her down, she'll be alright, that's why "What Fresh Hell" is not a depressed as hell episode even though it did have the sexual assault of a minor.

P911 though, the most crucial years of his development (before age 5), Peter was raised by his kidnapper and molester. Hope was driven to suicide, years of captivity, rape and forced pregnancy. In "Into the Woods", how many boys was killed by the creep still on the lost, the last season of their lives in a frickin cage, a sexual predator their only contact. Plus, the father's speech was High Octane Adult Fear: all he wanted to do was bring his son camping on the weekends when he have custody, and it ended with him not being able to find and rescue his little boy.