How to Overcome Social Media Trauma Dumping | Psychology Today
Trauma dumping - I learned this new term thanks to, ironically, #xiaohongshu
I feel like trauma dumping isn't a thing in Chinese social media. Not many people share their traumas, sadness, and fears on social media there. Being angry at something, yes, but sharing their sorrow and pain and personal problems? Not as big as English social media. "Face" is important to the Chinese after all.
When US folks started joining XHS in came the posts I was dreading. One US poster repeated "I am scared" over and over again.
I have a feeling Chinese folks don't know what to do about these posts and have been asking the Americans why they're doing this out of concern.
Then came Americans asking other Americans to stop "trauma dumping".
And that's how I learned about this term lol
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/positively-media/202109/how-overcome-social-media-trauma-dumping