Multiple diagnoses prior to CPTSD?

I've spent years being pinballed around the MH system with every diagnosis under the sun.

The problem is that the way we can relate symptoms and problems, includes things we have learned as behaviours and coping mechanisms, so is not necessarily the true presentation.

I was exhausted from trying to fit in, and nervous about work and social situations. So it was depression and anxiety. Then I doubled down and overachieved, crashed, overachiever, crashed, and was diagnosed bipolar. I was just trying super hard, then crashing from exhaustion. Trying to fit into a world I didn't understand, with childhood trauma, adhd, and almost certainly on the spectrum.

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