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I think you should be fine to apply MD and MD/PhD. Congrats on the incredible MCAT score. You will obviously have to explain what happened those first 3 semesters in about every interview you receive and stability and good mental health is extremely important in a physician. But I think you've come a long way and could make a convincing argument that you are capable of dealing with the stress of medical school and as a practicing physician. Essays and interviews will be extremely important for handling this. I wish I had better advice for you, hopefully Goro or gyngyn will come through.
You have an extraordinarily strong discordance that will require a plausible explanation.
Maybe a short paragraph. You could sort of make it the theme, like use it in the introduction and then explain all the things that happened afterwards that made you want to be a doctor and conclude with how even with 3 bad semesters you still decided you were going for it because of all the stuff you mentioned in the body of the essay. I think that could be good. Just make sure you mention a lot of other things. But, a lot of schools just send all applicants secondaries so you will be able to explain it thoroughly there.