CPTSD/Disorders of extreme stress not otherwise specified

A woman has ambitions to change the mental health system after seeking help for her issues for twenty years.

Every encounter she was told she was too intelligent to suffer from mental health problems, was declined help for her disabilities and told she should just get up and go to work. Unfortunately, she was always pushed out for depression and anxiety.

The government reports:

“We don’t understand how mental illness is a disability. It shouldn’t be. These people should just get on with it. This is the 21st century. There was no mental illness hundreds of years ago. The evidence is clear to see that this is a new age topic that is destroying the youth of today. Vincent Van Gogh, Shakespeare, they didn’t have mental illness. They had a high IQ. There is no evidence to suggest that mental illness creates creative thought.”

Then Natalie arrived.