When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with ocd, depression, and socail anxiety disorder. In the past year and a half or so, I was also diagnosed with bipolar(2), schizotypal personality disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and body dysmorphic disorder (I'm not to sure if that was an actual diagnosis though. My therapist said it sounds like BDD, but that it could also be from my other issues). Then, on april 3rd I got diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (which is a rare connective tissue/collagen disorder). Do you think having all these things wrong with me somehow makes it more possible to rare things to happen to me or common things to happen to me in a rare way? I feel like I collect diagnoses. I have an immense fear of HIV, so when I hear that having all these things wrong plus a rare tissue disorder, I'm always scared I'll catch the disease in a "rare" way, even though I don't have s*x, do drugs or anything like that. Is my fate wacked out or something? Would you be scared if you had more than 1 rare thing going on with you? Would you feel like you were in danger or something?
Thanks!
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