ASA1-Section 1
Professor Valverde
Week 4
"The Coddling of the America Mind," by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathon Haidt, is an article that greatly discourages trigger warnings in university. Trigger warnings are "alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response." A majority of the time, my jaw just dropped in shock at what people were getting persecuted for, especially the case that found a white student guilty of racial harassment because he was reading a book with an "offensive" cover. Our society has become more sensitive in nature to graphic material, and it is unfortunate. There are no "trigger warnings" in real life. We should definitely encourage students to learn how to thrive in a world that has conflicting views. If we all thought the same, how would we grow and learn from a diverse community filled with different thoughts and ideas? Furthermore, I don't think it's helpful to avoid the ideas that we dislike or are uncomfortable with. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a method in order to make us realize that we can learn to accept the things that make us uncomfortable, all the while leading a healthy, normal life, uncontrolled by fear.
Question:
1) What are ways that we could practice CBT in our own lives in order to be in better mental health?
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