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Many people who sure as hell never experienced actual trauma are touting trauma everywhere.

But then again, mental damage is intangible, right?

Since you can't experience other people's distress, your worst experience is always at the top of the scale on an individual level. You can use empathy and reason to understand other people's struggles, but your personal experience is unique in scale.

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“actual trauma” is needlessly dismissive. It doesn't have to be very dramatic to affect someone. Everyone has traumas.

I don't think this is a useful way of thinking. If we applied the same thing to physical medicine then every impact of an air molecule with your skin would be a "trauma" which is clearly absurd. There needs to be very clear boundaries for these things or else they become completely meaningless. It's meaning comes from it's restricted use, which seems to me have become completely unrestricted as of late.

This argument doesn't make sense to me. It's not like any bad thing that happens to someone is traumatic to them.

Consider that seemingly insignificant things can be very traumatic, and likewise major things (e.g. death) might not be traumatic at all.

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