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mad_tea_partySo I don't go around listing every single thing that triggers me, but I gotta say I've had a lot of that happening recently. I can't get into detail about some of it due to privacy concerns for a friend of mine, but I don't really like what happened to her with her family a few days ago, and they're still treating her like shit. Reminds me of my stepfather. Not Cal. My stepfather before him. Sadistic abusive ass. And that's exactly how my friend's stepfather is, too.
Eleanor and Park also has a verbally and physically abusive boyfriend in it. Not Park, but Eleanor's "stepfather". So I've been slightly triggered by that, too. I keep reading it though. So it's not nearly as bad as this next one.
The Program by Suzanne Young had a very interesting plot, but I had no idea what that plot would mean for the contents of the book before I started reading it. Basically its written in a day and age where suicide is a teen epidemic, so schools around the country have implemented "The Program" which reprograms anyone who is depressed so that they forget everyone and everything that was making them depressed, but it also strips them of their true identity.
The contents of the book (ie: the story) talks a lot about loss, suicide, and actually has a couple of them happen in the book. The story being what it is, I'm not surprised. I just can't make myself read it. Too much triggering. So I did something I very rarely do. I deleted it completely from my account so that I would not be tempted to try it again.
Can I go back to my oblivious life now? Please and thank you.
Eleanor and Park also has a verbally and physically abusive boyfriend in it. Not Park, but Eleanor's "stepfather". So I've been slightly triggered by that, too. I keep reading it though. So it's not nearly as bad as this next one.
The Program by Suzanne Young had a very interesting plot, but I had no idea what that plot would mean for the contents of the book before I started reading it. Basically its written in a day and age where suicide is a teen epidemic, so schools around the country have implemented "The Program" which reprograms anyone who is depressed so that they forget everyone and everything that was making them depressed, but it also strips them of their true identity.
The contents of the book (ie: the story) talks a lot about loss, suicide, and actually has a couple of them happen in the book. The story being what it is, I'm not surprised. I just can't make myself read it. Too much triggering. So I did something I very rarely do. I deleted it completely from my account so that I would not be tempted to try it again.
Can I go back to my oblivious life now? Please and thank you.
