Should content moderators get psychedelics as part of their work demands?

Depending on the content, yes, moderators can suffer severe trauma caused by their jobs.

I would think that cancer is "this century's cancer".

It seems apt to me. I like the connotation of last century's cancer being this unspoken deadly thing that wore people down until they just died.

Thank you for reminding me of the game “Unmanned”. You okay a drone operator who must make impossible decisions. The burden takes a toll, it is well worth a play for anyone interested in this subject of combat stress reaction.

http://unmanned.molleindustria.org/

I think a big reason for the resistance of acknowledging trauma as injury is, arguably, because culturally so many of us are injured that we behave in a clearly traumatized manner towards actions of healing, ie. rejection/denial/lashing out. Think how many of us were beaten as children, how incredibly common it is for family members or community leadership to molest children, how widespread food insecurity and addicted parents are. If we acknowledged all forms of trauma as trauma we would have a radically different society, one that would be arguably the soft-bellied weak men that many social movements now rail against…

We aren't allowed to bring it up.

Abusive bosses and shit working conditions often get swept under the rug, and the result is trauma expressed to the worker's loved onrs.

Another challenge is how we as a society view non-physical violence like emotional abuse, verbal abuse, gaslighting, and infidelity. Punch a person in the face and it leaves obvious physical markings. Yet cheat on your spouse with their best friend, and coordinate with your spouse's family and friends to gaslight your spouse into believing they're crazy and you're much less likely to be caught. I genuinely believe the psychopaths that live among us have a vested interest in ensuring that psychological abuse is very difficult, if not impossible to prosecute. And I would much rather be punched.

No there isn’t some conspiracy to leave it unprosecuted, just that people with psychopathic tendencies are good at sniffing out the areas where the victim is unlikely to hit back

From my experience, only way to really deal with those types is to always escalate and get more eyes on the situation

> only way to really deal with those types is to always escalate and get more eyes on the situation.

Want to echo this, and say that it is in the psychopath’s best interest to make you feel like you are overreacting. Bringing more eyes on the situation is not overreacting, and if someone who has power over you is trying to convince you of that, don’t trust them.

Add a little CTE to the mix if you were operating heavy firepower or vehicles, and...yeah.

I had a form of heightened fight or flight neurological response stemming from a viral illness, which surprisingly bears a lot of similarities to cases of PTSD.

Things that helped immensely were taking 2-3 hours per day to calm myself, avoid all screens, walk outside, and exercise. Minimal "unnatural" stimulation is key, and some level of boredom is actually good. Ideally in the morning and a couple hours before bed. I recognize not everyone has the luxury of that much free time, but I suspect more people could pull it off than they think. When you're calm, you're also more productive, so you can probably accomplish more in your busy hours.

> We see it as decreasing expectancy of the last 30 years in the U.S.

Is there any solid research showing this connection? It's not obvious that trauma has had a bigger impact over this period than e.g. sedentary lifestyles...

e.g. Harvard Mastery of Stress Study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9058175/

"91% percent of participants who did not perceive themselves to have had a warm relationship with their mothers (assessed during college) had diagnosed diseases in midlife (including coronary artery disease, hypertension, duodenal ulcer, and alcoholism), as compared to 45% of participants who perceived themselves to have had a warm relationship with their mothers. A similar association between perceived warmth and closeness and future illness was obtained for fathers.

82% of the participants who reported tolerant or strained relationships with their fathers had significant health issues in midlife, compared to 50% of those who had warm or close relationships with their fathers.

If participants had strained relationships with both parents, the results were startling: 100 percent had significant health issues, versus 47 percent of those who described their relationships with their parents as being warm and close.

Another study, conducted at John Hopins University, followed 1,100 male medical students for fifty years and found that cancer rates correlated closely with the degree of distance a participant felt toward a parent.

That's an interesting study but doesn't establish the relationship GP claimed. Does lend some support to the idea it's a contributor.