There is a mental health cost to trauma and to dealing with very distressing ideas. Even if you heal from trauma (and not everyone does), the consequences of ha

There is a mental health cost to trauma and to dealing with very distressing ideas. Even if you heal from trauma (and not everyone does), the consequences of having gone through that experience will be a part of your story. People are often better off not having that be the case. I have experience with trauma that made me depressed for about a decade. I've gotten over it to some extent, not entirely. But at the minimum, I lost a decade of my life. I would have been better off not losing a decade of education, career progression, friendships, pursuing adult prerogatives, and similar. If a teenage person becomes depressed due to social media, they will pay the cost of not forming friendships and not being able to engage with education in that period of their life forever. These costs will be both mental and economical. Certain knowledge like self-doubt or conviction that one has no self-worth (and some come not only from abuse but from certain reasonably commonly held beliefs in society) can cause a lot of chronic mental disorders — anxiety, depression, insomnia, various dysfunctions, etc. Finally, consuming an always-online diet of doomscrolling can make someone's worldview so skewed that they will pay significant social costs. I do believe there is a type of knowledge that will cause harm to someone for a time, or forever. It could even be a certain thought that becomes difficult to challenge. This is why there are therapists, who nowadays commonly treat people exclusively with challenging ideas, like with the CBT modality. I think, to an extent, society will help someone recover after trauma or after going off the deep end, but that extent is not very large. Society is also quick to abandon people it deems beyond worth saving.