Sony to get think the word traumatised is used far too readily on mumsnet?

[RedHelenB]

Losing a oarent, having a serious accident fair enough, not for things like a parent telling their kid father Christmas isn't real or forgetting it was own clothes say at school.

Seems every post has someone traumatised lately.

@IGotHam

Yes OP I agree. People don't have a bad day, it was traumatic. People don't have a heated conversation, they scream at each other. People don't get a bit upset; they are raging with anger. This need to be dramatic is

Given the level of literary talent why aren’t more of these people romance novels writers

I disagree, I think it reflects how tired people are of having mental health trivialised by every normal human emotion being pathologised.

Agree. Actual trauma is a real and horrible thing.

There is also the conflation of something mundane and a real trauma - nothing has any nuance. Everything is OMG I'M GONNA DIE SOMEONE IN THE SUPERMARKET LOOKED AT ME FUNNY.