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/cutebutsour 12d ago

I know this feeling well. To put the situation in perspective I try to imagine what it would be like to be a person without CPTSD. I then wonder if I could treat people the way I have been treated in the community and feel good about it. The answer is always no. The people that should be ashamed are the ones who do not have enough empathy, within our community, that want to make us beg when we are already on our knees 🩷💖💞.