Dr. Ingela Thuné-Boyle
Health Psychologist
Online Therapy

Some people with a chronic illness or with distressing physical symptoms may have experienced trauma in their lives, either as a direct result of their illness or at a previous point in their lives. Ongoing childhood abuse, for example, has been shown to be related to ill health in adulthood, where those who experienced a rough childhood are more likely to be diagnosed with a chronic illness later on in life.

I've read a few articles lately about what people describe as 'medical gaslighting'. What's usually being referred to here is a tendency for some doctors to dismiss, minimize or undermine a patient's health problems. In this blog, I want to look more closely into what's really behind the term 'medical gaslighting'. You'll find that it's actually a little bit more complicated than just plain gaslighting. That doesn't excuse the behaviour, nor does it minimize its effect. Indee

Living with a long-term illness can be difficult on so many levels but one aspect sticks out: being minimized and dismissed by healthcare professionals. This is unfortunately fairly common for those living with a rare, 'invisible' or poorly understood condition. When someone in a position of power treats us badly, we usually end up feeling pretty stupid, embarrassed and ashamed and knowing the unfairness of the situation and our inability to deal with it at that moment, we ma