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When medical gaslighting makes you doubt your own experience

Every time I go to the ER I feel like they think I'm faking it even though I'm in real pain and it makes me question if I'm actually sick.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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External dismissal of our subjective reality can cause us to lose trust in our most fundamental source of knowledge.

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