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These are some real feelings that you are stating directly. Can your mother hear them entirely without implicating herself in being as bad as you might be saying?
You ask if this qualifies as C-PTSD. It is a question that a therapist could help you answer. I found out later in life that a person can go to a therapist with a specific question, such as you as asking, and discuss only that question, to the extent that it is useful. Perhaps it would help you figure out what you are asking here.
I relate to your sentiments as I was circumsized but incompletely in that the foreskin required a re-circumsision later, I suppose on the same logic that it must (?) be achieved, and with reference to sanitariness (why would the human body evolve to produce a dangerous source of unsanitation upon itself, to be improved by surgical removal?). Well, you get what you get, I guess. In my case it involved several subsequent visits to a doctor with him "checking" on me - in my mother's concerned presence - and the subsequent adjustments which I mention. I am maybe 10 or 11 years old. It is humilating. I am receiving a weird kind of private attention, with my mother alongside. My psyche.
The anger is real, and I have destroyed that doctor's office in numerous ways over the years in my imagination.
You are good to pay attention to the emotions and you have a great opportunity to manage them and not be burdened. Good luck.