Somebody with ME sent me this list of resources that they put together re Gaslighting. They said I could share it. I haven't looked at them myself. --- 4 Tricks for when doctors gaslight you - Dr. Kaveh LIVE - Medical Secrets (Jul 2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH3iSKanN7s The toxic power dynamics of gaslighting in medicine - Sarah Fraser, MSc MD CCFP (May 2021) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8115954/ Gaslighting: What It Is and How to Stop It - Medically Reviewed by Smitha Bhandari, MD on Aug 03, 2022 - Written by Stephanie Watson https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/ss/slideshow-gaslighting-what-it-is-and-how-to-stop-it Gaslight and gaslighting - Laura Thomas (Lancet, Feb 2018) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30024-5/ppt Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care - Sebring JCH (Aug 2021) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34432297/ What Is Gaslighting? - Mental Health America https://screening.mhanational.org/content/what-is-gaslighting/ Ask an Expert: What Should I Do If My Boss Is Gaslighting Me? - by Mary Abbajay (Harvard Bussiness Review, Nov 6, 2020) https://hbr.org/2020/11/ask-an-expert-what-should-i-do-if-my-boss-is-gaslighting-me Medical and Mental Health Gaslighting and Iatrogenic Injury - CPTSD Foundation - by Shirley Davis (Jun 8, 2020) https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/06/08/medical-and-mental-health-gaslighting-and-iatrogenic-injury/ What Is Gaslighting? – Britannica – by Brian Duignan https://www.britannica.com/story/what-is-gasligh Thread of all of the items on Twitter:
I struggle a bit with something that has that interactive element, it is just my personal thing there that I'm not a fan of when soemone is reading out comments people are making as they go. He does well at noting the harms of gaslighting at the start which I think it is important actually get confirmed. MOst gaslighters pretend their doing it is without harm/injury. I will note the first tip I've seen (I'm fast-forwarding through a bit so might have missed one) which is: Bring someone with you , because it is harder to gaslight two people at the same time. I will note that this to me flags something desperately needed for ME: to develop a team of advocates for pwme to take to appointments of any kind. FIrstly because we are really stuffed in self-advocating because even if we have the capability, we then get the 'you're mad' card pulled out on us. But also because a lot of us will find that even if we have someone close enough who might go to such appointments there is no guarantee that they aren't susceptible to being 'co-opted' which is what has happened for a lot of pwme over the decades. The one thing worse than being alone and gaslighted is for such a person to instead focus on training that significant other to gaslight you, and I think there is a lot of potential for that with ME or pwme in all sorts of appointments.
2. is write down what is being said 3. is have a diary at home: to give you objective data, collect thoughts (confirm to yourself you are ill) etc - pertinent to discussion on measures going on currently I think here on other threads if people are being suggested what to write and how to see it. He mentions eg I know my thoughts and data and these are showing a trend in a non-healing direction - again the words 'trend' being something I'm not necessarily seeing discussed either with the talk about measures. 4. about status things that might 'throw you off' in power-differential like asking the person to sit down on your level, ask if you can put your clothes back on before you talk etc
id actually caution against that... at least in UK if your advocate writes it down then fine, but you writing it down, if they are already leaning towards believing you have a psychosomatic condition, in my experience this will lead to it being conformed. - that has been my condition, i even had a dr snigger at me for writing down what she said - it seems to be interpreted as an indication that you are overly invested in having something serious that needs note taking. a la hypochondriasis/health anxiety. The culture might be different outside of the uk, but i have personally been in 2 encounters where the reaction to my taking notes was negative in the way i described - all part of the gaslighting, but in the uk you cant just walk out of the consultants office and go see someone else, so just... be careful
I noticed that one if you are referring to (ironically) when he is describing the harm caused by gaslighting professionals and how that eventually causes physical harm.
