"Trauma" now stretches from genocide to a bad line manager, and somewhere in that stretch the word stopped doing any work at all.
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The stretching happened because the narrow version left a lot of real harm with no word attached. That was a genuine problem and this was a genuinely bad solution.
It got loose because it got destigmatised, and that trade was worth making even if the vocabulary suffered.
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