It is hard when you are not fully in contact -- not able to formulate it in your own mind, let alone tell it to someone else. What happens is that I fear retribution for trying to tell, which results in more mental disorder in an attempt not to feel that fear. And then people get upset with you when you cannot explain. Which, of course, makes the situation worse. Some don't listen. I know no one IRL who has enough of a similar experience (and has worked that out) so that it "rings any bells" with them at least consciously. People "react" without knowing that that is what they are doing.

I remember reading Freud discussing a long time ago the reaction to help-seekers of a "colleague" of his; this colleague said to the poor slobs that he would "fine them for taking up the time of the court". Freud was using this as an example of something guaranteed not to help.