Prejudice

The first time I talked to a therapist of any kind, it only took them 10 minutes of hearing about my abusive childhood to diagnose me with PTSD. No one takes it seriously bc I don’t “look like someone” who could have PTSD, which is so frustrating because I still deal with severe anxiety and depressive episodes. Most days I’m reluctant to leave my bed, let alone my apartment, out of fear of experiencing a panic attack in public or “ruining the mood” for my friends without mental illness when I’m feeling depressed. It’s tough.
-- [–]afterchampagne 161 points 4 years ago If you were raised by narcissists, you are a trauma survivor. Don't be surprised if you have PTSD. : raisedbynarcissists (reddit.com)
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---I remember being told by other kids to stop "bragging" about being from Spain, that I couldn't be Spanish, " not even from Mexico" because everyone knew that Spanish people were dark ...dark haired and skinned and always picking a fight, and of course I didn't fit the bill. Some even went so far as to say that I didn't know how to speak Spanish because I didn't sound like their Colombian neighbors. Obviously, there's like thousands of accents. There's at least a dozen accents in Spain. My Asturian accent is wildly different from an Andalusian accent, even from a Basque accent, although we're in the north.
-- Mari Fairley, Facebook.com
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Snob
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