trauma olympics

There's some nuance that the "trauma olympics" narrative misses. Somebody having a worse experience than yours doesn't invalidate you having a terrible experience. Being expected to be there for peopl…

Does anyone else feel they can tend to be unsympathetic to those who grew up without emotional neglect? — I feel this often. When I see online posts of someone with a familial problem (I judge as) banal. And pretty often in the PHP group I used to go to. It makes me feel awful and like I’m being unfair to…

I had nothing actually traumatic happen to me and being on this sub just reinforces that and I have no other choice but to take myself out. I am tired and resource-less and can't even feel valid in my own 'trauma' — TW- csa, rape, SI I am so sorry because I know there are so many posts like this on this subreddit and they are annoying but I really can't help it. I am losing myself and everything else. I experien…

Saw my old teacher who bullied me in public. — When I was in highschool I had a teacher that refused to round up my grade so I could go to university when I needed a 70 percent average. I ended up having an art teacher who helped me clean the art…

The ability to gaslight yourself for having symptoms of what you went through is so specific to sufferers of narcissistic abuse lol I have the same struggle and as my therapist says “it’s not the trau…

The source of your trauma is not invalid. I know exactly which story you're talking about, but the severity of abuse and suffering they went through to cause their trauma, in NO WAY minimizes your own…

It's not the trauma olympics. The pain is real, the suffering is real.

Bud, the trauma Olympics only causes you more pain and keeps you stuck in your unhealthy habits. Your pain is sufficient. You are valid.

Worse than genital mutilation? How can you even say that. Don’t compare it’s horrifying to do the trauma olympics in this way. 

Trauma Olympics ahh post

As if physical abuse doesn't have emotional ramifications. What even is the point of trauma Olympics? Does the highest trauma jumper get a gold medal? Can it be traded for fame or healing or somethi…

And the thing is too- they all suck. Creating suffering/trauma Olympics isn’t good at all. What could hurt people more than invalidating people who are probably already getting invalidated by then goi…

I think this even speaks widely to the whole "trauma olympics" mindset that a lot of survivors/victims can inadvertently adopt as a way to validate their own experiences. Part of being a survivor/vict…

If you see somebody engaging in trauma olympics on here you can report this. It violates rule 1.

The trauma Olympics stuff is always so sad and frustrating. I understand why, since I think people definitely arent in this subreddits or similar spaces without facing chronic invalidation no matter h…

I hate trauma Olympics. Everyone loses fr.

There is no trauma Olympics.

Thanks for adding some nuance, I appreciate it! And I agree with everything you've said. I'm sorry you were expected to extend care and empathy to your abusers while going through that, and I truly ho…

I won't be able to leave anytime soon but I also fear moving out and life getting better, then I would just feel even more distant from what supposedly happened to me. Atleast I am theoretically in th…

If your parents get mad at things you didn’t do - it does make sense that you hide things even though you’re allowed. It’s difficult to know what you will be yelled out for or not because it’s so unpr…

its okay to take your own pain seriously, im not here to play trauma olympics with who had it worse and i never understood that, its like, someone else is happier on the planet somewhere so why should…

I had a “friend” who literally told me her ace score was higher than mine and I was floored. Like, what???? I can’t stand trauma Olympics and anyways, my trauma was different than hers!

agreed. It hurts everyone bc my step mom was emotionally abusive and in some ways it was worse than the stereotypical events I can throw out to get a 'gold medal' in the trauma olympics. People are cr…