Hi there DePressMe -- I don't know whether this response will be helpful or not.

For quite a few years, my body seemed to be breaking down -- severe neck and shoulder pain, then a knee that started hurting even when swimming, a shoulder that became injured from innocent swimming, depression, headaches, hip problems, low white blood cell count . . . the list seemed to go on.

Then, I got a diagnosis that seemed to account for all of these.

It was a relief when I could put all the symptoms in the same basket so that I was only dealing with one thing, not a zillion.

Do you think it would help if you could figure out one thing that subsumes all the others. For example, it would appear to me that being a survivor of abuse could account for the multiple other symptoms. Chronologically, it came first; and our chldhood psychological wounds have great bearing on our adult selves.

What do you think?