trauma dumping

Many of these terms do have early, important roots in psychotherapy – the word “triggered”, for example, was first used by psychologists as a way to describe those who were suffering from PTSD after the first world war, while the term “trauma-dumping” was widely popularised by psychotherapist Janina Fisher in her 2017 book Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors.

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It’s funny how people went from “Oh if you need to talk you’re never alone” to “don’t trauma dump on others it makes people so uncomfortable and traumatizes them!😡”

“trauma dumping” is just shaming victims. Natural_Priority_424 2026

When you dump trauma on someone who hasn't consented to it, it's not an act of connection, it's an act of coercion. Repeatedly trauma dumping on someone non-consensually without giving them a way out of it is a way to traumatize them and pass on the trauma.

What is trauma dumping and how is it a bad thing? ElishaAlison 2026