You did not stick to just one substance you went for the sampler platter. This code recognizes the complexity of that history and the work of staying out of it. This is the "buffet of bad ideas" diagnosis, for people who never picked just one substance to fight with. The hat does not list every substance you dated; it simply celebrates the fact that you broke up with the whole scene. It is a tiny, cozy monument to doing the impossible more than once.

This diagnosis applies when there was significant problematic use of multiple substances that is now in remission. It acknowledges overlapping addictions and ongoing recovery needs rather than focusing on a single drug. Polysubstance diagnoses acknowledge patterns involving multiple substances without a single primary drug. They tend to make lives look like cautionary tales instead of the complex stories they really are. The embroidery refuses to flatten you into a warning sign; it records the fact that you survived several things at once.