Raise your hand if you have Iatrogenic PTSD. 🙋‍♀️
I now have to take Xanax to go to any medical appointment, or my blood pressure shoots up to stroke range and the doctors freak out. My BP is otherwise normal, but I take two BP meds due to this issue.
“Iatrogenic PTSD: When Healthcare Becomes the Source of Trauma”
This is the term I suggest for describing what many chronic complex disease patients develop after repeated dismissal, invalidation, and gaslighting by healthcare professionals.
open.substack.com/pub/neurolog...
In very simple terms, iatrogenic means caused by medical treatment or by the hands of physicians. But how do the very hands expected to heal end up leaving people traumatized?
