Had nightmares when I was a baby, always screaming in my sleep. Decades later, I got a diagnosis of severe congenital obstructive sleep apnea. Even without a criminally abusive and evil stupid father, even without any exposure to any schools or any peer pressure, that would have remained a major life shortening and quality deadening issue. It's not possible to be psychologically or psychiatrically healthy with compromised sleep disturbance.
Getting diagnosed with what is now called AD/HD (Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood in DSM-II) provided the single advantage of knowing today
that my brain and body paradoxically process the antihistamine diphenhydramine so that OTC drugs like Benadryl, Tylenol PM and Vicks ZzzQuil wake and rev me up rather than make me sleepy, but the label of mental retardation my idiot elementary school principal father, idiot teachers and idiot school psychologists slapped me with was an academic death sentence, as they looked for the worst, expected the worst and hoped for the worst from me.
Having been bullied at home, by the school faculty and everybody else while I was being drugged with speed in front of my elementary school classes by the bullying teachers to the jeers of the other kids, I started getting my first failing grades after I was taken off all medications at age 13 and a half. A false rumor was started that I was suicidal over something as meaningless and stupid as academic grades, so I was forced into psychofuckery by school fuckologists who all belonged with other bespectacled degrees in Khmer Rouge death camps, incessantly treated as if I was suicidal, and so I developed iatrogenic dysthymia and major depressive disorder.
All these years later, having decisively failed on electroconvulsive therapy and seven of the eight current classes of antidepressants, I have been labeled untreatable by multiple psychiatrists and qualify for psychiatrist administered euthanasia in the Netherlands and Belgium, aside from my citizenship in the United States. (I expect psychiatrist administered euthanasia to become a legal right in the US during the next four years, although I doubt I'll be waiting that long to CTB.)