I'm not a psychologist but my wife is. My understanding is that terms like trauma have a technical meaning in these fields which doesn't always match exactly ho

I'm not a psychologist but my wife is. My understanding is that terms like trauma have a technical meaning in these fields which doesn't always match exactly how it is used in everyday language. For a medical doctor anything that leads to a bruise would be a trauma. For a psychologist it could be anything that negatively affects your mental state. I'm not in the US and my impression is that PC culture there is getting ridiculous and any "micro-agression" might be seen as trauma etc which I don't agree with either. However that doesn't invalidate vernacular use by professionals.