Do you ever feel kinda like someone else with trauma invalidates yours? Like... I hate admitting this because it feels so disgustingly petty, but I feel like if someone tells me their trauma, it means mine is less valid. Like... even if it's exactly the same thing that I went through, etc.

And then I feel as if I have to put up and shut up, and carry them, even if they haven't verbalized that they expect that.

I know objectively that's horseshit and *HSM voice* we're all in this together, and have had people tell me that, but it makes me feel as if, if I give voice to my trauma, instead of nodding and helping they're going to treat me as if my trauma is childish or invalid somehow.