Is flashing as traumatizing and serious as the show makes it out to be?

EDIT: thank you so much to everyone who answered!! I got a lot of context and info I didn’t think of, and didn’t realize how awful it made the whole situation. I really appreciate it. I’ll watch the episode in a new light from now on. Michael’s reaction is really unfunny now….

Phyllis’s reaction, but also almost the whole office’s super serious reaction and Jim immediately calling the cops. I’m not trying to make light of it if it is, it’s just any reference to it in other shows or movies (actually watched Hairspray last night and it was part of the first song lol) generally is not that big a deal. I don’t have any real-life experience with it, nor does anyone I know.

Edit: maybe it’s somewhere in the middle of the two? I’m not SAYING nbd I’m saying I DON’T KNOW. I’m tired of being attacked just for a yes or no question. The only places I’ve seen it in movies and tv contradict each other.