Are we too all-in on “trauma?”

Ted Bauer
3 min readFeb 7, 2022

Feels like people love to discuss “trauma” these days, even ascribing it to situations that might be traumatic to them — which is valuable to note — but are not traumatic in any type of broader sense that we’ve accepted the term to mean. New York Times ran something about three days ago entitled “If everything is trauma, is anything?” The whole article is pretty good, but this part (longer) pops out:

Ted Bauer

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