If you are not taken seriously when you visit the doctor, if complaints are downplayed or simply blamed on the psyche, this is referred to as medical gaslighting. In a series, women tell the star their experiences with medical gaslighting - their illnesses differ, but they all share the feeling that they were not heard on the way to their diagnosis. Jasmin Buchen is one of them. She suffers from ME/CFS:

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