Despite only being 20, over half my life has been miserable and filled with chronic stress without any real joy whatsoever. Every doctor I've seen has been thoroughly clueless, and most have negatively impacted my quality of life with misdiagnoses and prescriptions for medications that nearly killed me through adverse physical and psychiatric reactions.

I've been diagnosed with major depression (age 12), panic disorder (16), and mood disorder nos>>>Bipolar nos>>>Bipolar 1 (18).

I've expressed countless times that I have an insane amount of stress and low tolerance for it, have always had a very hard time falling asleep/lay awake in the morning fatigued, and I've suggested a few times it might be a circadian/hormonal problem to my pdoc. During my third hospitalization, a medical doctor finally mentioned that I might have too much adrenaline and tested for a pheochromocytoma (adrenal tumor) using a 24 hour urine test, but found nothing.

Over the course of all this, anytime I sought treatment, I was already at a complete breaking point (covert nervous breakdown) and unable to effectively communicate to save my own life.

During my late teens it got so bad that I completely forgot that there could be any joy in life. My willpower to change anything was non existent because I had given up.

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Well, it turns out I just had adrenal fatigue from a ****** home life (constant exposure to fighting parents), ****** social life, ****** diet, chronic insomnia, being sedentary, and and a natural inclination towards anxiety and obsessiveness, made a million times worse by the things above.

Recovering from adrenal fatigue: How your body can overcome chronic stress and feel energized again

Thousands of dollars wasted because the problem couldn't be pinpointed because adrenal fatigue isn't taught or brought up at all in medical school. To them, if your thyroid hormone is in their acceptable limits, the stem of all your problems has to be psychiatric.

I just needed to rant.

Has anyone else been falsely diagnosed and loaded with pills that made them sick, while the real problem was constantly overlooked?