It can be tricky when you’ve got some heavy shit to vent but the website or social media page you’re on would be a weird place to air it. If you’re itching to unburden yourself in bizarre and incongruous online spaces but don’t know how to justify making things weird, we’ve got you covered. Here’s The Daily Tism’s guide to getting your trauma-dumping rocks off. 

Think outside the comment box 

With a little imagination, any post you encounter online can give you the opening you’re looking for to discuss your foundational mother wound. It helps to have your trauma dumps categorised by theme, so you can quickly find the most applicable one for any forum. For example, any recipe comments section is an excellent place to post: 

“I always thought my mother’s cooking meant she loved me, but now I see she was using food as a substitute for love. Thanks for the eating disorder, Mum.”

Don’t hold back 

You’re just speaking your truth. At length. Under your real name. In the Facebook comments section of a Brighton Argus piece about a seafront bar that wants to replace its food kiosks with saunas. 

As the famous saying goes, nothing is permanent on the Internet, so make sure to include all the most graphic and personal details. It’s important that everyone in the Brighton & Hove area has all the context and receipts for your messy friend break up and how SOME people are just toxic.

Sequiturs are for losers 

In the Wild West of the Internet, there are no rules, man! Your trauma dump doesn’t even need to be tangentially related to the thing you’re commenting on. The world is your oyster! 

Leave a comment on that ultrasound photo about how you once saw a dead swan and you never got over it. Reply to your neighbourhood’s allotment page with one very lengthy and punctuation-free paragraph about how with more societal support, you could have been an orthodontist, or a secondary school chemistry teacher. Tell the budding guitarists on the tabs for Coldplay’s 2001 track Don’t Panic about the surgery you had when you were 11 for testicular torsion, which is exactly what it sounds like. 

Now that you’ve unburdened yourself, we hope you feel a lot better! The people reading it sure do!

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