Triggering: poem I wrote out of frustration

[NeuroBeautiful]

I am not a toolbox
You can't just throw tools at me
You can't just throw skills at me
You can't just throw distractions at me
I am not a disease
You can't just reduce me to my symptoms
You can't just ask me questions from a checklist
You can't just fix me with pills
I am not a case study from your textbook,
I am not a series of chemical imbalances
I am not non-compliant, resistant, regressing
I am not"a failure in therapy"

I am a human in distress;
I am a human in an emotional crisis due to traumas since childhood;
I am a human struggling to live in this world because people in my life, professionals included
have treated me in a way that
made me feel worthless and ashamed for existing.

But first and foremost,
I am human

[.Brittany.]

Wow! I absolutely loved this!

You can't just reduce me to my symptoms
You can't just ask me questions from a checklist
You can't just fix me with pills

I really related to this portion. Thank you for sharing.

[Storyteller.]

I can really relate to this. It frustrates me when people think that if something worked for them (or someone they know) then it must work for everyone. People are definitely all individuals and should be treated as such, and their symptoms should be considered just that: symptoms, something that the person has, not what the person is. Thank you for sharing this.

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I can relate as well and like the emotion you put behind this.