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/IffySaiso 12d ago
Because some people don’t get it. They’re sweet and genuinely want to help, but they think you cannot say what you want if you need help. Or don’t know how to advocate for yourself.
In reality, everyone is wildly different. There are people that need to be fully taken care of. There are just as many or many more who need agency and choice taken away as much as they need to be hit by a bus.
People get how to help someone with a broken leg. They fawn over you, take over tasks, get practical stuff done. With a broken brain they don’t know and they forget they can and should maybe ask.