Language has gotten ridiculous

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I was thinking today about how we've twisted our language here in the U.S. It's hard to know what people mean to say when some words are replaced with others. For instance, it has always disturbed me that the word “problem” has been replaced with “challenge”. If someone gets cancer that’s a problem, it’s not a challenge. If I break my leg, that’s a problem. If I voluntarily decide to enter a triathlon, that’s a challenge—it’s voluntary, freely undertaken, and probably an enjoyable experience in the long run. A soldier wounded or suffering from PTSD does not have a challenge—he or she has a problem that has been inflicted upon them because their government chose to solve a conflict by sending citizens to kill and be killed. Calling such an injury a challenge seems to me to be trivializing something very serious, something that was not asked for but inflicted upon them against their will. We trivialize so much these days. It just bothers me. What's wrong with telling the truth and calling a problem a problem? What do you think about this?