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Cassandra Syndrome (medium.com)
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This is an article I wrote in response to a thing that annoys me.

Dear Mods: Not sure if this counts as self-promotion, if it is, please remove it ASAP, or tell me and I will delete it.

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PS: if you can, do me a favor and crosspost it on other social media sites, thanks

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[โ€“] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I am in a much better place, still dealing with cPTSD from that. I am extremely upset that my abuser, who encouraged my suicide after I got my autism diagnosis, is considered a victim of the "Cassandra Syndrome", and I am the bad guy.

[โ€“] bearboiblake@pawb.social 6 points 4 weeks ago

I'm really glad to hear that you're doing better. At the end of the day, it's classic psychiatrist behavior. They've always treated us as problems because we're different, and blamed us for not fitting neatly into the mold society expects everyone to fit, rather than helping society to accept other people for being different.

This is also why I hate modern psychiatric approaches to treating trauma such as CBT and EMDR, it focuses on making trauma victims fit into society better through some sort of systematic approach, tackling "symptoms", rather than treating people as individuals and just talking them through issues in a holistic way.