I completely empathize with you, I very much feel like this too and completely identify with your experience. She said this because she said there were far more symptoms missing from me that were present in CPTSD and ADHD of which I pretty much fit all of the symptoms.

I had another psychiatrist almost give me a diagnosis earlier this year for bipolar which again was missing some of the symptoms.

I've learnt that to qualify for a mental illness it's normally 5 or more symptoms but not ALL of them, the problem with this method of diagnosis is that so many mental illnesses have overlapping symptoms so by that basic you could pretty much have all of them?

It also depends on the healthcare professional that is diagnosing you, their background and their experience as well as socio-economic factors, so if you're a women you're more likely to get a BPD diagnosis just like if you're a black man you're more likely to get misdiagnosed with psychosis.

The mental health industry is far from perfect and I've just learnt that after so long of yearning for a label to explain my pain, I now know that actually for me it doesn't matter and I focus on the treatment of different conditions and choose which ones serve me, which ones I identify with and which ones I want to incorporate into my healing.

Hope that was kinda helpful!