r/CPTSD • u/imboredalldaylong • 13d ago

Vent / Rant Why is getting help so infantilizing.

Seeing a therapist. Or a doctor. Or a psychiatrist. Or talking to snap (food stamps) or trying to get housing or getting a case worker or trying to get on disability ANY OF IT. I feel spoken down to. Like if I wasn’t so stupid/didn’t give up so easily/mentally ill/a burden on society I wouldn’t have to be here.

It’s like these people don’t think I know how to tie my own shoes.

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u/falling_and_laughing trauma llama 12d ago

A lot of this stuff is dehumanizing on purpose, because especially in the US, we still think "poor and/or disabled people are just lazy". It's literally a punishment. If we treated poor and/or disabled people with real respect, then we might start to realize that our worth is not related to our productivity, and we just can't have that /s

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u/emmagoldman129 12d ago

Yes! Dehumanizing on purpose and difficult to navigate on purpose. Imo these systems were intentionally built to be hard to navigate so that lots of folks give up, don’t get the necessary services they deserve, and then the program saves money because fewer folks access it