Dr. Ingela Thuné-Boyle
Health Psychologist
Online Practice

The connection between narcissistic abuse, trauma, and chronic illness conditions, underscores the profound impact of emotional suffering on

Some people with a chronic illness or with distressing physical symptoms may have experienced trauma in their lives, either as a direct...

Grief is usually associated with a single event such as the death of a loved one. However, in chronic illness, grief is also very...

When discussing a patient's health status within healthcare and clinical practice, we often talk about the concept of Quality of Life but...

I've read a few articles lately about what people describe as 'medical gaslighting'. What's usually being referred to here is a tendency...

I had intended on posting a blog article about what many people refer to as 'medical gaslighting' but considering the times we live in at...

When we live with a chronic illness, it's so easy to focus on our shortcomings. So easy to fall back on self-criticism and self-blame....

I had intended to write about grief in chronic illness but my health took a turn for the worse with yet another episode of CSF leaks...

Refusing to accept symptoms or limitations brought on by chronic illness is a good thing, right? It stops us from giving up, right? It...

Living with a long-term illness can be difficult on so many levels but one aspect sticks out: being minimized and dismissed by healthcare...

I read an interesting blog article recently. It was written by a woman who felt completely overwhelmed by her illness, especially the...