Citations:trauma dump

Verb: "(informal, psychology) to divulge one's personal difficulties inappropriately or without the consent of the listener."

 * 2021, Kayla Woodson, "Celebrating was never an option: things to keep in mind this February", Kentucky Kernel (University of Kentucky), 8 February 2021, page 8:
 * So now, I talk about my experience as it is, no more, no less. Other Black people and I do not exist to trauma dump as if we're writing a scholarship essay in order to beg white people to believe in racism.
 * 2021, Lucy Perrone, "Ange déchu", SHEI Magazine, Fall 2021, page 43:
 * I am not these men's therapists and I am not here for them to trauma dump while they neglect to consider my feelings or even listen to my stories.
 * 2022, Laura Cley, Idiots: Marriage, Motherhood, Milk & Mistakes, page 101:
 * I knew she was (justifiably) crazy and trauma-dumping her own fucked-up experiences onto me, but it still stuck.
 * 2022, Eliza Ester, The Bakery on the Cove, unnumbered page:
 * “But then I started trauma dumping and you felt sorry for me?"
 * 2022, Marc Fienberg, Dad's Great Advice for Parents of Teens, unnumbered page:
 * You're only trying to model good problem-solving behavior for them, not trauma dump on them and burden them with more concerns than they already have.
 * 2022, Rebecca Humphries, Why Did You Stay?, unnumbered page:
 * I look around the room thinking about who I've told what to, how careful I've been not to trauma dump on any one person too much.
 * 2022, Jennifer Knightly, Paradise Lost & Found, unnumbered page:
 * He was meant to be making Adam feel better, not trauma dumping his own sorry past.
 * 2022, Dante "V" Lovecraft, Voltaire: The Trilogy, page 94:
 * I don't care if I become rude, ruthless, or apathetic to people and my friends because I can't let anyone pathetic and pitiful to come to me and beg me for help as they trauma dump as the usual of every fuckin' day of my life.
 * 2022, Salem Miles, The Secrets That We Bury, page 172:
 * We can work on your trauma together, but we can't be trauma dumping each other. It hurts our relationship, and I don't want that."
 * 2022, Sarah Robinson, Mall Out of Luck, unnumbered page:
 * "My...well, not to trauma dump, but my father was an alcoholic and I never really knew him aside from the few times he'd show up drunk and ask my mother for money. When I was in college, my mother died—ovarian cancer.
 * 2022, Bear Rose, Crash Course System Support: A Comprehensive Guide, page 44:
 * It is never [bolding in original] okay to trauma dump on the people around you.
 * 2022, Shani Tran, Dope Therapy: A Radical Guide to Owning Your Therapy Journey, unnumbered page:
 * I was ready to trauma-dump like Bob the Builder.
 * 2022, Holly Wethey, Wendy Zhao, & Jackie Lee, "Exam-season survival guide", The McGill Tribune (McGill University), 5 April 2022, page 14:
 * Many [professors] are happy to accommodate students or compromise on deadlines to an extent. There's no need to trauma-dump in your email—keep it simple and polite. Outline briefly where you're struggling and offer a time frame or plan that would allow you to complete the work in full.
 * 2022, Alana Ramshaw & Grace Lagan, "General Secretaries", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Semester 1, Week 9, page 20:
 * We've spent the past month trauma dumping on each other in the DMs,
 * 2022, Lindsey Johnson, "Is Discord a Healthy Hangout or a Dangerous Decision?", Giggle Magazine, April/May 2022, page 79:
 * "People will trauma dump very quickly," Rodriguez warns. She has experienced other users contacting her with messages threatening suicide. "It happens often," she says.
 * 2022, Nirvana Ragland, "Where's The Spark?", Your Magazine, May 2022, page 13:
 * Where is the sweet spot between trauma dumping on a potential significant other and suffering in silence through uncomfortable or triggering situations on a date?
 * 2022, Tate Raub, "Music shapes our core memories", The Post (Ohio University), 6 October 2022, page 20:
 * But I'm not going to sit here and trauma dump. I would rather talk more about how music can be so strongly connected with some of our of our favorite memories.
 * 2022, Reyn Ou, "Democracy Dies In Darkness, Humanity Dies In The Press", 22 West Magazine, 5 December 2022, page 17:
 * It didn’t go away for the entire duration of the party where I decided to trauma-dump my issues.
 * 2023, Amara Sage, Influential, unnumbered page:
 * I'm not about to scare her off by trauma-dumping on her though, so I just say I'm fine.

Noun: "(informal, psychology) an instance of such oversharing"

 * 2022, Naima Small, "TikTok's #TraumaDump: Why Trauma Can't Be Just a 'Storytime'", 34th Street Magazine, 25 January 2022, page 8:
 * The blurring of personal boundaries, combined with TikTok's usage for memes, makes it easy for trauma dumps to be placed into popular meme formats or even sarcastic comments on positive videos so that the reader or viewer is caught off guard.
 * 2022, Albert Cho, I Love My Stupid Life: Eat Lit Food And Other Tasty Exploits, unnumbered page:
 * I don't want this book to be a trauma dump, but that early childhood experience fucked me up, big time.
 * 2022, Lisa Miller, "Breathing Fire: Congress, 2018-Present", in Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC, page 197:
 * Her monologue could have been called a trauma dump, but she deflected that critique by facing it down.
 * 2022, Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, Healing from Toxic Relationships: 10 Essential Steps to Recover from Gaslighting, Narcissism, and Emotional Abuse, unnumbered page:
 * When Miles started telling Meke about his troubled childhood, she remembered her therapist talking about trauma dump, when a toxic person divulges too much of their history of trauma too soon.
 * 2022, Rebecca Carcieri, "'Luckiest Girl Alive': An uncomfortable, unexpected trauma dump", The Brown Daily Herald (Brown University, Providence, RI), 17 October 2022, page 2 (used in title only)