LB, as someone who’s undergone some rather intense diagnosis stuff, I appreciate a lot of aspects of that post. It doesn’t invalidate symptoms/feelings. And it points out that there’s a lot of overlap between conditions, which means you’re more likely to have 1 thing than 6. I have 2 which are very commonly dxd together. If you can’t get diagnosis, it’s probably more helpful to you to focus on symptoms or, at best, similarities.
@ruth I always worry I have more than what I do bc overlaps like... I know that even my Chronic Major Depression and GAD, while treatable as separate from professionals, are also both symptoms of my C-PTSD and connected moreso than they are 3 separate things. But that's also hard to explain sometimes to others.