If I Fully Trusted Myself

Shawn Elaine Anderson
Phoenix, Arizona
Sjögren’s

My art is is my writing. Writing is a therapeutic release and really helps me process my emotions about all that has happened in the last 7.5 years and how I deal with things on a day to day basis. I had to quit working FT due to being so ill in 2018. I was very dismissed in the beginning of this journey – Medical Gaslighting was very destructive to getting me diagnosed and treated more timely. I know that Medical Gaslighting is nothing novel as it has happened to so many of us thatare chronically ill, but that doesn’t mean that the topic shouldn’t get the attention it deserves so that we can all work together, support associations, clinicians and patients, to eradicate the potential harmful effects of Medical Gaslighting.