There's been an attempt to redefine "trauma" broadly. Technically trauma is acute stress. That is, a great deal of stress delivered all at one time. There's been an attempt to redefine it to include chronic stress. That is, generally living under stressful conditions.
I don't know why people are doing this, but it's almost always closely bound to politics. For example, the commenter below mentioning the political commentators Will Self and Dan Carlin as evidence for the theory.
I've noticed generally that people who talk about trauma being broad in this sense also tend to have a confused understanding of psychology in general.
> One of the main premises of this article is that society today is more traumatic than in the past, which I find to be laughably incorrect.
They are definitely incorrect. One pop culture way of looking at this is fairy tales. Not too long ago we used to tell children that if they went into the woods they could get eaten by people who lived there and lured children into their houses.
I don't know why people are doing this, but it's almost always closely bound to politics. For example, the commenter below mentioning the political commentators Will Self and Dan Carlin as evidence for the theory.
I've noticed generally that people who talk about trauma being broad in this sense also tend to have a confused understanding of psychology in general.
> One of the main premises of this article is that society today is more traumatic than in the past, which I find to be laughably incorrect.
They are definitely incorrect. One pop culture way of looking at this is fairy tales. Not too long ago we used to tell children that if they went into the woods they could get eaten by people who lived there and lured children into their houses.