Did you watch the video? He’s not saying that all trauma is in fact equal in severity. He’s saying that the body responds to all trauma as trauma and it’s always legitimate. The video is an effort to raise awareness of how trauma can effect you, and how we downplay/minimize our own trauma because we compare it to horrible shit other people have been through.

There are many different kinds of trauma (complex trauma, single incidents, emotional, physical, etc.) and each person is unique in how they feel/are affected by it, but his point is that your body doesn’t care if somebody calling you a mean name as a kid isn’t “bad enough” in your mind to be trauma, or if you know people who have been through worse things–if you endure a trauma, your body/mind will interpret it as a trauma, and to heal, we have to recognize what our traumas have been and process them.

It’s actually a super important message and relevant to a shocking number of people.