POTS triggered by childhood trauma?

TRIGGER WARNING: SA

Ive been thinking about what could have caused my POTS and where it all began, Ive been very lucky to have been diagnosed so quickly as my GP spotted it within my first visit, and my cardiologist diagnosed me a month later, however im trying to figure out where this came from.

My childhood was pretty awful, my dad was sexually abusive and my mum was physically abusive however she stopped when i was around 14 and we are now close, no longer in contact with my dad.

Ive always been the type of person to act as if nothing has bothered me until the point where now i really truly believe that, ive never been to therapy for anything ive been through, ive just pushed past it and moved on

On new years eve 2024, i had an extreme mental breakdown out of no where, im not sure what triggered it, and ever since then i have been ill, At first i assumed the reason i couldn’t get out of bed was because i felt depressed, then after a week or so i was out of bed but EXHAUSTED, dizzy and id have hot flushes, i thought i was maybe iron deficient or anemia but my blood test was clear, I kept getting worse until at the start of feb i was unable to work.

Ive seen many people say they had a flu or covid etc and then developed pots from that however I’ve not experienced that at all, i haven’t had a virus in a long time. Long story short, is anyone else in a similar situation? Ive read about the connection with POTS and emotional trauma but i just don’t know if it’s possibly not the cause.