Dear Ryan:

I am not a psychotherapist, not in the profession. I did go through psychotherapy, my first quality psychotherapy 2011-2013, that started me on the healing process that is still ongoing. I am dedicated to it. Part of my process is my very communications here. I learn and heal and learn more every day.

Like you I have a collection of diagnoses of my own. What I find to be the origin of these diagnoses is anxiety, ongoing fear experienced early in life, day after day, months, years. Living in perceived danger for too long, situation not corrected, threat ongoing… this does something to a person, lots of consequences. These consequences are organized into groups fitting those different diagnoses.

Anxiety, do you think it is the beginning of what leads to the many disorders such as you listed?

anita