Here’s a definition of rotation that I think fits your context: “In medical education, a clerkship, or rotation, refers to the practice of medicine by medical students (M.D., D.O., D.P.M) during their final year(s) of study. ... During the clerkship training, students are required to rotate through different medical specialties and treat patients under the supervision of physicians.” So, for example, a med student might have a radiology rotation one month, a cardiology rotation the next month, and so on. Regarding the other sentence, I think the author means: “Our culture already puts little value on some kinds of emotional pain (and expects people to be tough), so you can’t expect help from others for your pain; so don’t make matters worse for yourself by treating your own emotional pain as unimportant, so that you don’t even help yourself.”

Rotation in this sense usually is applied to medical school. A rotation is a series of visits to individual patients in a hospital. The person is a student or resident going on rotation with a professor and other students.

Rotations in this context could me the terms that medical school students perform, 'rotating' between different departments to learn about different specialties. "we certainly shouldn't add to the injustice by disenfranchising our own emotional pain." means that we should recognize, acknowledge and own our own emotional pain, as if we cannot even do that, we cannot expect society as a whole to do so either.

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