Coping with the feeling of "my experiences could not be REAL"?

This is one point that frustrated me a lot.. and I feel like the very reason that detransition stories scares some people as it gives them self doubt even made me feel bitter. While detransitioning is not a big part of me (only a desister, no medical decision and I only went 'there' for 2 years).

I am also someone who was falsely diagnosed with bipolar and wrongly institutionalized. There was no compensation and I'm not able to sue the psychiatrist who made the mistake. These stories are as well, 'untold'. Especially in the days where people use mental illness as identity. The idea that the label can be wrong scared people a lot.

There's the idea that, 'even if i can move on'. I'm just suffering alone without no one to here. Which perhaps is hypocritical in term of validation and what i think about transgender community.. that now i need validation myself

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