The problem with this is that "little trauma" is an oxymoron, trauma is severe by definition. The word is another victim of the hyperbolic tendency in, specifi

The problem with this is that "little trauma" is an oxymoron, trauma is severe by definition. The word is another victim of the hyperbolic tendency in, specifically, the Californian dialect of American English. You will see people talking about various small insults as 'trauma', and brand-new constructions like "trauma dumping" which is, often as not, telling a friend about a bad week when she wasn't in the mood to hear it. Don't fall for it. Trauma fucks you up, that's how you know it's trauma.