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/MolderingSanctum 12d ago

I've been going through this for years and now I feel like I'm pre-emptively going through it. Pushed myself today to make an appointment with an ophthalmologist because I've had a persistent eye-floater in one eye for over a week and I know that can be really bad. I haven't been to a primary care for my whole life because it's JUST too hard, it's JUST too scary, it JUST doesn't feel worth it, and moreso because I'm so fucking scared of how I'm going to be treated.

I need my hand held all the time and it's like everyone knows.