Can the NoFap community be a trigger?

Yes it is a trigger sometimes in different cases

 

The title of the thread brought me to this question: Can Samsung be a trigger? Probably you'd say no, but maybe you have a Samsung smartphone you could watch P with it.
Of course some users describe their stories very detailed, but this is a forum for communication. So I guess it depends on your perspective if you see the stories as a trigger or as a lesson.
So the questions is very very philosophical

 

It can be a huge trigger. Believe me, I relapsed because of some people's threads in the past.

You need to be extremely careful about what you read. Some stories are just full of triggers and very explicit. Some people like to talk about their past P consumption and fantasies. Stay away from those threads. In fact, I would recommend you to stay away from the Porn Addiction and the Rebooting sections as much as you can. They're the ones with the most triggers. If I were you, I'd spend most of my times in the Success Section, the Journals Sections, the PIED section (subforum of the Porn Addiction section) and the Challenges section.

 

The short answer is yes. Ultimately, you have to balance the pros and cons of being a part of the community and decide whether or not it is beneficial to you. If you find that staying away from the forums helps you stay cleaner then you should stay away from them. If you find that overall the forums help you stay cleaner than you would be without them but get occasional triggers, you should invent strategies to avoid the triggers while still being involved.

 

It is a forum and people need to get out their stories which contain words. If people get triggers from them it's their problem. The people writing their stories have a right to write them and sometimes, and a lot of times it helps the writer. Anything can be a trigger.

 

It may be necessary or cathartic for some to explain their struggles in great detail. Being mindful goes both ways, but of course there is no hard set of rules. It might be appropriate for one to explain something in great detail in their own log, but if someone else creates a post and explicitly asks for descriptive language to be kept to a minimum, it would probably be inconsiderate for one to elaborate on their darkest fantasies in that thread. At the end of the day, you are mostly in control of the information you consume and if you see something you anticipate may be triggering, you have the power to stop reading it. All addicts face unwanted triggers from time to time. The goal is to minimize them to a level they can handle.