I personally would argue that the issue happens to coincide with a language shift. While 'trauma' was indeed adopted to mean 'I stubbed my toe yesterday' ( and not without help from media, which popularized it ), similar to word 'mid', I am sure a new word exists that encompasses absolutely brutal treshold for PTSD.
I’ve never seen trauma mean ‘I stubbed my toe yesterday’, and I suspect that is the core part of the issue here if you think people are saying it is.
It might help to think of a trauma reaction more similarly to an allergic reaction.
Anaphylaxis is a real issue, and a real problem. Some people will get it from a single bee sting, or a peanut.
Other people can get stung hundreds of times or work in a peanut factory, and have no issues.
Until they do.
We don’t know why this is the case, but pretending it isn’t happening, or denying anyone an epi pen doesn’t help either - near as we can tell.
The difference is, it’s psychological not physical, so unlike anaphylaxis we can’t see it happening clearly and there isn’t a clear type of medicine we can give someone.
It’s common if someone has had bad issues, but has been told to ‘suck it up, it’s not happening’ to get resentful if someone else’s issues start actually being taken seriously.
For instance, if someone was neglected as a child, and then someone else starts pointing out that they want attention - ‘shut up and sit down’.
The issue here is that some of these reactions are adaptive, some are maladaptive, some can be addressed, and some can’t - and we frankly can’t seem to agree on which ones are which.
Which has probably always been the case. But now we get to navel gaze about it all in public. Yay.
Technically, stubbing one's toe is an example of blunt trauma. Of course it's on the milder end of the scale, but that's how you would classify that kind of event.
It would explain some things.
If the tools work, why not use them? If they don’t, maybe use something else.