There's a particular kind of frustration that comes from sitting across from a doctor, carefully describing symptoms that have been disrupting daily life, only to be told it's probably just stress or worse, that nothing is really wrong at all. For many patients, that experience has a name: medical gaslighting.
What medical gaslighting actually means…
For Justice, 30, and Tara, 29, the road to understanding their own bodies was long, exhausting, and often deeply discouraging. Both women live with narcolepsy Type 1 (NT1), a chronic neurological disorder that affects the brain's ability to regulate sleep and wakefulness and both spent years searching for answers before anyone gave them the right…

