I saw a thread a few weeks ago talking about the trauma surrounding the pandemic and a person replied comparing it to their personal experience with trauma and essentially wrote off the licensed professional. It’s not fair to compare scars. If you were hurt, you were hurt. Period

People who play trauma olympics exhaust me. Just because something is hard for someone, doesn’t invalidate their feelings. It doesn’t make it “better” or “easier” than what you experienced. It’s just different. Everyone has different limits relative to their experiences.

Especially now. This pandemic is traumatic for the country. For the entire world. Everyone is coping with it differently and people will continue to cope after it. You don’t have to personally experience loss to be traumatized by this. You don’t get to say what hurts someone else

Trauma isn’t a competition. People are struggling whether that means they‘re unemployed, they’re experiencing loss, and can’t be with their family to grieve, they can’t properly mourn, they have to go to work and put themselves at risk, etc. All are traumatic and heartbreaking

Just because what someone experienced with isn’t as “bad” as what someone else is dealing with, doesn’t mean the first person is weak or faking it or invalid. People are hurting and are seeking comfort and our government doesn’t care. What can they do?

This pandemic is hard enough for everyone for their own personal reasons. Try not to compare different experiences and be nasty and selfishly invalidate other people. Be a kinder and brighter force in the world. Help and support the people around you instead

This thread was brought to you by like 3/4 am thoughts and frustrations while in quarantine lol