In "Crossing the Aegean is Traumatic: Your Bad Hair Day Isn't," Nicholas Haslam notes that the word traumatic has taken on a new denotation today. Haslam says a lot of what people call traumatic today is not really traumatic. In fact, he even says the word itself has become increasingly popular, even to the point that it is overused. Look at the image below. This is taken from Google Ngrams.Links to an external site. This is a site where you can track how a word's usage has grown or diminished over the years. Note how trauma and traumatic have increased substantially over the years. 

Question: do you think people today use this word today to describe situations that are not serious? In other words, has the denotation of the word changed over time? What is your opinion on how people are using the word trauma?