Upvoted, but I worry that it’s not a good fit for LessWrong. Much of Social Dark Matter has pretty significant reasons for being dark, and LW is a public forum without much prior restraint on speech. For many of the same reasons we avoid politics (Politics is the Mind-Killer — LessWrong, summarized as “some otherwise-rational people go funny in the head on certain topics”), we should be very careful about making personal trauma and reactions to such a very visible topic here.
I very much hope you get a few good pointers, and that there aren’t many posts on LW on the topic.
There is no reason to assume that people at LW are experts on psychology or trauma. (I mean, it may happen that we have an expert or two here by coincidence, but we are not a mental health expert community.) Or that their experience is representative for the population in general.
It would be tempting to generalize from one example, so that e.g. people who were bullied at school might say “for example, bullying at schools is the most frequent source of trauma in our society”, and the people who were not bullied might say “actually, bullying at schools is almost non-existent these days”, and everyone would pretend that their opinion is based on more than an anecdote.
You would get all kinds of selection bias. On one hand, people love to complain, especially if they sense a supportive audience. On the other hand, people don’t want to make their darkest stuff public knowledge.
It is also difficult to distinguish between a person who had a wonderful life with virtually no problems, and an abused person who is deeply in denial. Their reports may sound very similar: “everything OK”.
Upvoted, but I worry that it’s not a good fit for LessWrong. Much of Social Dark Matter has pretty significant reasons for being dark, and LW is a public forum without much prior restraint on speech. For many of the same reasons we avoid politics (Politics is the Mind-Killer — LessWrong, summarized as “some otherwise-rational people go funny in the head on certain topics”), we should be very careful about making personal trauma and reactions to such a very visible topic here.
I very much hope you get a few good pointers, and that there aren’t many posts on LW on the topic.
There is no reason to assume that people at LW are experts on psychology or trauma. (I mean, it may happen that we have an expert or two here by coincidence, but we are not a mental health expert community.) Or that their experience is representative for the population in general.
It would be tempting to generalize from one example, so that e.g. people who were bullied at school might say “for example, bullying at schools is the most frequent source of trauma in our society”, and the people who were not bullied might say “actually, bullying at schools is almost non-existent these days”, and everyone would pretend that their opinion is based on more than an anecdote.
You would get all kinds of selection bias. On one hand, people love to complain, especially if they sense a supportive audience. On the other hand, people don’t want to make their darkest stuff public knowledge.
It is also difficult to distinguish between a person who had a wonderful life with virtually no problems, and an abused person who is deeply in denial. Their reports may sound very similar: “everything OK”.