I want to talk to you about The T Word
You haven't used it but I don't know if you don't think it applies or just don't want to label it for me
I don't know why it matters to me so much but it does
I want a word for what I've been experiencing. I want a word for why I'm fine one second and want to scream and throw things and cry the next.
I want a word for why I couldn't remember any of the details until recently.
I want a word for why it's affected me this much.
I want a word that says "yes, it was "that bad"" or at least "bad enough."
I want a word that lets me feel less alone. Like I'm allowed to identify with the other people who feel like this and can call what they went through and how it affected them "trauma."

But I don't want to bring it up and have you seem uncomfortable with calling it that because it wasn't that bad. Because that word is reserved for people who went through much worse things.
What if that's the line where you'd agree I was being melodramatic?