Affected by TV subjects please call

It started off well meaning to help people with genuine issues.

Now they have to put the warning after almost every show because some 20 year old snowflake center of the universe may feel triggered by something in the background of the show.

People don't get to pick and choose when they get affected by something on TV or radio that they are not expecting, it can be helpful to those people to be reminded that there are helplines there to deal with what might have brought on something they work very hard at trying to forget.

I used some of those helplines myself last week, I was listening to the radio in the car, and was suddenly brought back to some very dark memories and feelings, and I was very glad to be reminded of the helplines because I didn't have anyone to speak to about how I felt. I was just trying to get a few messages and all that.

It's PTSD in a lot of cases, it is in mine at any rate, and that can be debilitating to try to live with.

Also, I know this is After Hours, so tbh it's probably a waste of time saying what I said, so I'll add:

in all fairness, I doubt there's too many needing helplines for not being able to burn turf. You'd swear we had nothing else to burn in the country. (bog woman here, so don't @ me)

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I have been a Samaritans volunteer for many years, if you’re serious about helping people you’d be welcome to contact your local centre regarding training. I can definitely tell you that some of the worst nights I ever had on duty were after Prime Time/LLS covered abuse stories.

That's not true though now is it. I've seen those warnings maybe one show per day .

But sure that's not a thanks getter what wha. ..

Lemme translate this:

'These other people are snowflakes, despite the fact I'm completely over-reacting to other people's self contained actions. How dare other people have a different life experience to me! I'm gonna type a bunch of made up hyperbole, that I may actually have convinced myself is true, just to show how outraged I am that something came up on my tv screen during a time when I'd be most likely stretching, getting up to make tea, etc., that may possibly save someone's life. The inconvenience of having to see it with my own eyes for those few seconds is a far greater problem! But it's definitely the other people who are the snowflakes!'

Awaiting the response, which will predictably be some sort of "definitely not snowflake like" tizzy that will include buzz words such as 'millennials', 'back in my day', 'kids these days', and so on.

Watched a bit of Crocodile Dundee over Christmas. Pressed i button to read warning about the language used and how it was seen as ok when it was made, or words to that effect. Don't trigger the poor snowflakes!

On one hand the news is plastered with anxiety inducing disaster porn, we are bombarded with death, covid, climate change, weather warnings etc. On the other hand people apparently need helplines if a fictional character on Fair City kills themself.

I'd be interested to know how many call these helplines as a direct result of the "issues raised in the programme" - very few I'd say. And if someone did have some sort of breakdown as a result, a helpline isn't going to do much.

Virtue signalling, hypocritical media nonsense, basically.

How is the news a very different beast? Anyone who takes a decision to avoid the news because it's full of anxiety inducing rubbish is unlikely to be affected by the issues on Fair City if they even watch it at all.

As for local authority helplines - these are the same local authorities that have, in many cases, been providing a rubbish service with terrible phone and other communication for years. Covid arrives and the sloths who have been in hibernation suddenly wake up to deal with a "trendy" issue . Those people in floods of tears who rang Covid helplines during the initial lockdown are still dealing with their issues while the LAs have moved on to the next trend (Ukraine or climate change)

Did you think that was me being outraged/butt hurt somehow? Oh no, as I said, that was me laughing at your hypocrisy.

Are you telling me that not only are you a hypocrite, but you also see outrage where there is none? I probably shouldn't be surprised by that, but here we are.

You are getting very outraged for someone who claims not to be outraged. When you are in a hole you really should stop digging.

First Dates was it?

Can't get a bird: no chance of a ride.

Got a bird: too much hassle....

The thread started as the message doesn't belong after a show like first dates, grand if it was after prime time

The mental health situation in Ireland is horrendous. I don't know what exactly was on that episode, but there is every chance someone was discussing a topic with a well known trigger. They do seem to be very open about what they talk about on that show. Not necessarily a bad thing, it's nice to see people being open, but some topics are harder than others.

The manner in which these services is delivered is relevant because services are delivered in a half arsed manner based on trends, virtue signalling, optics, politics and, naturally, money.

Having been a public servant for many years, I have seen it from the inside. Now I'm no longer employed and you are entirely wrong about me BTW - I'm going through harsh times and I keep hearing about how I should do this or do that or such and such will help. Load of bollocks. A facade of caring.

If someone has a genuine mental health issue as a result of watching First Dates, a helpline won't do them much good. RTE virtue signals by advertising the helpline - if the programme is so triggering, why show it in the first place? Money

NGOs (state funded) lap the whole thing up, the people manning these helplines may be volunteers but no doubt there are others getting paid. Money.

There is a bigger picture here. State funding of and abdication of responsibility to a huge number of NGOs plus the way RTE operates. I'm all for RTE being a public service broadcaster which reports news in a balanced objective manner and carries out investigative journalism. When someone uncovers the latest state/church/health service scandal, I've no issue with a well organised phone line where people can seek help or report their experiences.

In a year or two it will be a case that they’ll probably be at the end of a football match and broadcast… “if you or anyone you know have been..”

They should have that now for every time Ireland play

Well done, thank you.

You're the one who seems very worked up. You really need to relax and stop taking things so seriously. You'll find life is much easier if you choose not to be so easily triggered. Genuinely. Don't seek to be so annoyed at other people all the time. They are just muddling through like you and far from seeing you as the center of the universe that they aim all their annoying traits towards, you probably don't even register on their radar when they do things that you choose to be triggered by.

can we just agree that no-one is triggered and move on?

you started it...

I pointed out a hypocrisy that's rampant on Boards, regarding how many people get very wound up about other people's lives that have very little impact on them, and still seem to think the other people are the issue. If the poster had come back with an equally valid post to the contrary, you'd have a point. They didn't, and instead resorted to the aforementioned childishness.

As funny as it's been to see them run around in circles chasing their tail to keep up, there is a point to it. At the end of the day, the helpline notice does not truly have any real impact on the people it isn't targetting. If, somehow, you* feel in any way that is does, then that sort of hypocrisy deserves to be called out. As far as I and any reasonable person are concerned, a few extra seconds of watching is not the same level of an issue as the very real impact certain things have on sufferers of PTSD and panic disorder. And if, somehow, you feel that it does, then please know that you are in a very privileged position to not only have not gone through something bad enough to cause PTSD, but to also not have to live with the long term consequences of it. Gosh, I wish I lived a life that has gone well enough that other people's hard times gives me a hard time (and I don't mean in an empathetic way).

If me, making fun of someone who seems to think their ability to watch a tv show without an extra few seconds they don't actually have to acknowledge, is more important than someone else's reminder that there's help out there if needed, makes me the over wrought one then despite the massive jumps of logic needed to come to that conclusion, fine.

I stand by what I said. Getting upset and throwing around buzzwords like "snowflake", and "triggered" because of something that makes other people's lives a little easier, makes you fair game for being called out on it.

*you, in this case, being the collective

its always mentioned at the end of programmes with disturbing content....

so how come they never mention it at the end of Mrs Brown's Boys ??? 😶