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Beware influencers who throw around concepts like TRAUMA and ADDICTION to get your attention.
Beware people who portray complex concepts like trauma and addiction, in an oversimplified way.
Trauma & Addiction are increasingly becoming clickbait terms on social media. This is not psychology. It is marketing.
People with trauma and addiction do not benefit from their suffering being rebranded into oversimplified social media marketing.
‘Trauma’ and ‘addiction’ are not just fluffy, simple, easily understood. These terms are not just subjective. These terms don’t just mean whatever we want them to mean.
The human mind understands new concepts in relation to our existing knowledge. This means we risk oversimplifying complex novel concepts like addiction or trauma into something ‘just like what happened to me’.
There is a risk in assuming all psychological phenomenon is ‘just like something that happened to me’. This is not always the case when it comes to complex concepts like trauma and addiction.
Trauma is not like “really intense distress”. Addiction is not just like “really intense attachment”. These are discrete categories and concepts. Apples and oranges.
