If someone mentions they don't like my eyeglasses, the color of my lipstick etc it doesn't bother me. However if the judgment is about a personal matter it cuts right through me. I'm a survivor of domestic violence. Instead of support, parents, siblings and friends have judged and blamed me. People who I thought were my friends turned their backs on me. Yet I was there for these friends when they had problems. I even had a few doctors judge me because of the abuse- seeking treatment for old injuries.

Now I don't like discussing it with anybody. Not that I make it a habit of doing so. After judgment from doctors I would lie and say the past injury is from a fall. They certainly don't judge you on that. I'm quiet at doctors appointments and become very anxious if it's an old injury from the abuse.

How do you deal with judgment from others?