I don't know if this post is okay?? I've read the rules so I think it's okay?? I don't know, this is my first post on here and I don't know what to do about Roommate A.
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so, one of my roommates (A) will look up symptoms of ADD/ADHD, depression, anxiety, and even PTSD and she'll find one thing in common with any of those and she'll say that she has whichever she chooses (my other roommate (B) has asked her mom, she has been tested for all of the above and has none of them but she still says that she has them). but when me, who actually has PTSD, and Roommate B who has been diagnosed with ADHD and anxiety, talk to Roommate A about our mental illnesses, she'll invalidate them and say that we're faking it because 'she knows all about it because she has it'. when her own mother has said that she doesn't. Roommate A will say that she has anxiety when she gets nervous about one thing, she'll say that she's depressed when she's upset about some guy that she's talking to, hasn't replied in 0.5 seconds, she'll say that she has ADD/ADHD when she 'forgets' things (I put forgets in parentheses because she doesn't forget things, she has a very good memory, we ask her to help with chores around the house and she says that she forgets when in reality, she doesn't want to to it) or when she taps her foot. Roommate A continues to invalidate our mental illnesses when we tell her that we don't want to talk about it (because who wants to talk about their PTSD and their anxiety??) when she constantly asks us about it. we've tried to talk to her about how we get upset when she constantly says that she has these mental illnesses, which who knows she might, but then when we both have those same mental illnesses, she says that we don't because 'it's not that bad' when Roommate B can't go to work by herself or pump gas by herself and I can't play the sport I truly love without having constant panic attacks on the court to where the practice/game has to come to a standstill because I can't breathe and I can't get up off of the floor.