• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    According to my licensed psychiatrist, trauma is anything hurtful or harmful that impacts your behavior or patterns of thinking. The clinical term is actually more broad than the general public conception of the word.

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      8 months ago

      even in medical terms (not a doctor) getting a tooth pulled or scraping your knee is trauma.

      For all people posture that “the internet overreacts” they also overreact to the so-called overreaction