Something I’ve noticed over the years: symptoms of trauma will be mocked and trivialized as angst, especially if you’re a woman, and only a trained eye will pick up on this
Further observation: if you let on even in the slightest that the reason for your behavior stems from trauma people will immediately freak out because they can’t handle what they can’t understand, and they don’t want to have to take you seriously because it’s much easier to dismiss you as an angsty girl
And one of the worst side effects of this is cringing relentlessly at your own suffering because you’ve learned and internalized that people will only regard it as a joke, anyways
Like “triggered” is a cheap joke now. I’m legitimately embarrassed whenever I’m actually triggered by something and it’s not fair I don’t even feel like I can use language literally intended to describe experiences with trauma