an irritating thing about having multiple health conditions (especially if it’s a combo of mental & physical ones) is that people seem to have this desire for one of ur conditions to be the One True Malady that’s causing all ur other issues. and while sometimes that can be the case it’s also very common for conditions to have complex interactions with one another where there’s no single root, just a constant interplay where the effects of one condition compound the symptoms of the other and vice versa.
a psychiatrist once told me that my physical disability is the root of all my mental problems including my autism, and i just need to ‘get that sorted’ (as in, cure my physical disability) and as soon as im not bedbound/in a wheelchair anymore I won’t need mental health support anymore. meanwhile some people who are validating of my personality disorder diagnosis seem to think my PD is somehow the cause of all of my physical issues including like, my 55 degree scoliosis curve, and i don’t even know where to start with that one. my beloved grandmother keeps telling me that my reversed sleep schedule is the root of all my ails and if i just get prescribed the right sleeping pills then i will recover completely. one time i saw a rheumatologist who told me that if i healed my mental trauma with something called the butterfly method😍 then all my joint n muscle issues would leave 🙈 yay butterflies. anyway let’s all fall in love with the reality that often there isnt one single answer, there’s often a hundred answers which are all dependent on each other. the end
