I was fairly recently diagnosed after doing a lot of research on various mental health disorders because I knew that what I have going on is more intense than the diagnosis of depression and anxiety I got as a teenager. I don’t have any friends, so I opened up to my mom about how much I’m struggling and she completely invalidated me. She kept saying that I have some of the traits, but that she doesn’t think I have it. I don’t tell her everything, so that’s part of it but in general it just really hurts to be invalidated when opening up - especially from my only parent