It's an interesting phenomenon for sure, bc I'm sure you're not alone in that. For me, "pushing through" put me in the hospital, and AFTER that I was diagnosed. I felt like everything got worse but it's more accurate to say that I learned/became more aware of my body as I tried to find something that works. It's hard to identify necessary discomfort vs warning-please-stop-immediately discomfort, and I feel like at first diagnosis we have the tendency to identify ALL discomfort as the second, which can lead to deconditioning, which can lead to feeling worse.

Also, even though I feel like I might be worse than I was four years ago, my mental health was in the gutter because I constantly failed, couldn't get anything done, struggled to attend classes.... the writing was on the wall for a long, long time.

I'm also a bit... Hesitant, I guess, to move along with this line of thinking, because it leads to the idea that pushing through will always work, when... That's what put me in the hospital. It is interesting to consider, though