“What You Went Through Isn’t Traumatic.”

Actually, it is, and it’s called betrayal trauma.

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For the last three years, I’ve been downplaying my traumatic events to myself because I was a firm believer that what I went through wasn’t “traumatic” enough to be trauma.

But after several years of processing and healing, I realize what I went through was exactly that: trauma.