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The purpose is not to help people overcome traumatic events. The purpose is to be kind to people. "Hey you are going to have a shitty day but it'll help you deal with your trauma" is not something that a professor should be unilaterally deciding.

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Facilitating negative behaviors that prevent/increase the difficulty of overcoming trauma is not being kind to someone.

But is there evidence that trigger warnings in classrooms make overcoming trauma more difficult? The cited research just says it doesn't help people overcome trauma.

Avoidant behavior is defined as specifically attempted to avoid being exposed to things that remind you of your trauma.

Avoidant behavior is basically universally agreed to be a maladaptive behavior to ptsd.

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