Trauma Dumping is when someone shares something distressing or traumatic with you without any warning. When someone puts you on the recieving end of that it almost never feels good. Now, the trend is invading our phones and we can be barraged or caught be surprised by these stories all day. Many of these videos do not contain a trigger warning which leaves some people with past trauma distressed. This could be related to the Doomscrolling phenomena which we covered last week. What’s more, others content creators have been providing advice without disclosing any form of credentials. Dr Alix Woolard, Senior Research Fellow at The Kids Research joins us for a more insightful look at the effects of Trauma Dumping.

If you’re interested in Dr Woolard’s study, you can go to this link – https://formative.jmir.org/2024/1/e49761/