I just saw a video on my twitter timeline of someone being shot in the head and blood pouring out. It wasn't marked as sensitive and the post was popular. First time something like this has appeared as I only follow rocketry-related journalists and developers. I'm really shaken. I don't have money for therapists.
by the way, next time it happens, when you see it coming dont dwell in it, dont stare at the spectacle, just shut it down...same principle as seeing puke or shit...if you dwell staring at it youll get sick, just dont look at it
Now delete the app, no cap
Make a new plan, Stan
Do you need to scroll, Nicole?
Just get yourself freeHaven’t been on Twitter since shortly after the ascension of Naughty Old Mr Car, and didn’t use the official client before that, but do the videos auto-play? Can you turn that off?
It can be really shocking to see the mangled corpse of a small child mixed in between the shit-posts and memes.
As for actual resources? Mhh, not sure medical resources would even be suited for this.
Maybe you can view this as an opportunity to update your world view and take it as motivation to behave as to prevent society from sliding into dysfunctional equilibria that eventually make people do this.
For instance knowing that stress or poverty makes people violent or criminal and violence begets violence, you can make good arguments for prosocial policy decisions that may influence your voting behavior (at least this influences mine). Also there's a tiny amount of real monsters where nothing can be done, I guess.
And note that there is waaay worse out there, just describing it might get me banned here. But is seems to be who some of us are sometimes.
For that there is contextualising literature on criminology, but I have no specific recommendations on the quick.
Oh, and it might be a good idea to look for other Twitter frontends, that don't require you to use the official site. Maybe something RSS like if you want a feed of people you follow? A browser plugin? Dunno what's possible here, never used mainstream social media since the algorithmic feed era.