• Vilian@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    there’s a difference between traumadumping and sharing some trauma/sorrow/sadness. i compare it with my girlfriend, her family is composed of the worse human beings i ever encountered in this shit hole of earth, and if she said to me be every shit that they do every day that hapoen with them, it start fucking with me, my mental, my capability to help her, my emotional etc, that’s why she go to the therapist, so she don’t share every day shit that her family do and making me worry and only say to me things that matter

    but she started working and studying now, so she spend less and less time with them, leaving less time for them to be assholes, what help me alot

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      8 months ago

      As someone who never heard of the term before, I assume that if traumadumping was just sharing trauma then it wouldn’t be called trauma dumping.

      The overwhelming nature is what makes it dumping, as I’m your example.