People seem to have awkward responses to the word/concept of trauma. Some people don't feel entitled to use it for fear of being fraudulent; some people want to claim it in order to validate their painful experiences. I think trauma is over used and misapplied in some circumstances. Experiences can be painful and distressing without being traumatic. Societally, I think we marginalise pain and distress and this leads people to need bigger and more serious words to evidence how much they are struggling. We should take our pain seriously and not play a game where we need to up the ante in order to describe our "ordinary" wounds. The ordinary pain is painfully real enough.