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15 | When Doctors Dismiss You: Medical Gaslighting Explained
What happens when you’ve been gaslit in your relationship… and then gaslit again by the medical system?
In this episode of The Messy Middle, I respond to a listener question that so many women quietly carry:
What do you do when you’ve been dismissed, minimized, and made to doubt yourself - not just by a partner, but by doctors?
This isn’t about “bad bedside manner.” This is about institutional gaslighting. And for survivors of emotional abuse, it can feel like retraumatization all over again.
In this episode, we unpack:
Why the modern medical system was never designed around women’s bodies…
The skinny
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