Gaslight isn't the only word to have fallen into over use lately. Triggered, safe space, violence, these are all examples of words that have been jammed into watered down definitions that have all but robbed them of their original meanings. It was an effort to make relatively small things seem bigger and more important than they were, but the result has been to make serious things seem like no big deal.

It makes communication difficult b/c when you're trying to explain you got TRIGGERED, ie induced into a panic episode, and the person hears triggered, ie got a little upset, you're already not having the same conversation. And trying to clarify your meaning is just more stress.