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I have no medical expertise, at all, but I do offer a cautionary note about how to best deal with our ongoing crisis of mental health: Please, whatever you do, don't let a diagnosis/condition/however you relate to mental health, become your identity. This is NOT the time.
I've lost track of the number of people I've met, who so completely identify AS their diagnosis -- real or imagined -- that it's all they know, in terms of moving through the world. This can be paralysing, even if it seems, at first, that the world is validating your existence.
This is why I write so often about trauma and women and queers in particular: note the numbers of writers and performers who constantly reiterate their symptoms, their broken-ness, their traumas, and must because that's how they make their living.
The long-term effects of constantly performing your identity as a victim of trauma can, I think, perhaps be even worse than living in a culture and climate where your trauma is not acknowledged. It leaves you incapable of living with/outside of your very legitimate pain(s).
