I get the point behind this Washington Post article (paywall, probably) by Robin Stern and Marc Brackett. People use words like trauma, gaslighting, narcissism, and depressed in ways that don't match what mental health professionals (MHP's) mean by them. When people do that, they're usually exaggerating the severity of whatever situation or person they are facing. That causes harm because it ignores and in some ways even trivializes the challenges faced by people who do suffer from according-to-Hoyle trauma, gaslighting, narcissism, and depression.
I have two problems with Stern and Brackett's argument.
