DharmaGirl
MyPTSD Pro
I was recently accused of gaslighting on a website that caters to people who - to put it bluntly - have lots of illnesses. I have lots of illnesses so I'm not running them down, I just don't put #"a list of all my medical problems" after every post. I wrote a post about why pain meds won't be given out like they used to be before it was found that they were addictive after all. Thank you Sacklers for making so many people believe that they have a right to have as much pain medicine as they want. I thought gaslighting was when person A would try to make person B think they were losing their mind. There are many ways to do this, my ex-husband used to tell me my blue couch was green, and he brought his friends over to tell me so. That is what I think of when I think of gaslighting. To say that doctor's usually don't believe patients who say their pain is 14/10, they promote their self diagnosis as being diagnosed by a medical professional, and telling the doc only 1 pain med works for them, is not gaslighting, it is what the docs told me in ER. I was actually trying to be helpful.
So, is gaslighting saying you don't believe someone, or their pain is all in their head, which I didn't and never would say, or is it trying by different methods to get someone to believe they are crazy?
So, is gaslighting saying you don't believe someone, or their pain is all in their head, which I didn't and never would say, or is it trying by different methods to get someone to believe they are crazy?