# How To Not Minimize Your Trauma
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# Don't compare your trauma to anyone else's $ORIGINALTHOUGHT
1. Your trauma is yours-no one else had the same upbringing, past experiences, values and beliefs going into it. No one else experienced your trauma in the exact same way, location, time, or age as you nor was it committed by the exact same person with the exact same relationship and history. No one else will have reacted the exact same immediately after or during the afterwaves. No one will have used the same coping methods-healthy or otherwise-to get through one of the toughest times in your life. No one will remember it the same, be paralyzed in fear the same, beg for help the same, and get through treatment the same. Your trauma is as unique as you and you should not compare it or minimalize it for anyone. $ORIGINALTHOUGHT $DIRECTQUOTEIT