Guest post by Erin Henrici
Appendix Has Left the Chat: ‘Why was it so easy to dismiss my pain, and write it off as hormonal or psychological?’
Attention-seeking hypochondriacs
Physical health
‘I wanted to keep dancing so badly, but the doctors were like: whatever’
Guest post by Caitlin Evans
‘I nearly died because doctors said I was wasting my own time and theirs’
Guest post by Rhian Arnold
‘I think you’re a little bit stressed love’: a pituitary tumour misdiagnosed as stress
Guest post by Catherine Gladwyn
‘A middle aged mental health patient – what illness has she given herself now?’
Guest post by Ruth Fryman
Antidepressant withdrawal and serotonin syndrome: ‘I felt like I was dying, but doctors put it down to my mental health problems’
Guest post by Fiona
‘Maybe it’s your birth control’: My GP, M.E, and the fight to be believed
Guest post by Dawn Smith
‘An overanxious mother and a hypochondriac daughter’: chronic illness post-HPV vaccine
Guest post by Emily Ryalls
‘Making it up to get out of household chores’: the devastating aftermath of vaginal mesh
Guest post by Kath Sansom, founder of the Sling the Mesh campaign. Content warning: mention of self-harm