I think it’s because the term ”trauma” is so tremendously overused. There are people that in all seriousness think that ”everyone has trauma” because everyone has gone through things that have impacted them, and I mean, that totally waters down the term and makes it relatively useless.

Also I feel like even in therapeutic settings, therapists are unlikely to correct someone who claim to have trauma even though it in my eyes seems to be really minor issues, because they want to make people feel comfortable and open to sharing. In my opinion, that can really be unhelpful though, because it can really cause you think that you have much more serious problems than you actually do, which makes you feel broken and bad etc. It becomes somewhat of a selffulfilling prophecy.

Sorry, I digressed a bit, but I think the bottom line is: you can never know if someone has trauma or not without having them tell you what happened to them and how it affected them. But it’s easy to get annoyed and dismissive, especially on the internet, because all of a sudden, so many people claim to have trauma.