Looking for Support for "Nothing"
Ever since 2004, when I've gone to any medical specialist besides psychiatrists, I've been told that whatever symptom I came in with was either "nothing" or the doctor didn't know what was wrong. This makes me feel like a giant hypochondriac, or rather, an attention-seeker. I am beginnign to suspect that all the symptoms I've had since 2004, and especially those that started in 2007, are all in my head. I'm fine with this in a sense - I have lived with mental illness my whole life, after all. However, I don't like the connotation that I'm faking my symptoms. Also - and this sounds really off -, I would like there to be a name for what I have. This may be a side effect from my support-seeking tendency: I want support for basically every characteristic of mine, and if it doesn't have a name, I don't know what to type into a search engine. In this sense, my parents may be right that I am looking to be different in all the wrong ways.