By Rebecca Ruiz, Illustration: Vicky Leta/Mashable, Mashable, February 13, 2022
There's a problem with the way you're talking about trauma online. Or at least that's what several critics have suggested, in one way or another, in recent months.
The objectionable trends they've observed include people calling everything — even the slightest of personality quirks — a trauma response; using the language of harm for just about anything, thereby diluting the clinical meaning of the word "trauma"; and mistaking understandable pandemic anguish for trauma when it's really not.
In these pieces and others, I've been waiting for recognition of what seems obvious: Traumatic experiences are more widespread than most know or are willing to admit, and growing awareness of that fact on social media and elsewhere might be shifting how people talk about it.
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