It isn't all in your head ! Unlisted Video

“Everyone was telling me there was nothing wrong”.Show more

Have you ever had real problems and been told that it’s all in your head?

When medical tests all come back ‘normal’ you are diagnosed with depression and prescribed antidepressants.

Even though they don’t help, we often find that people accept whatever the doctor says.

This is even more so the case for women.

Growing research shows that women are more likely to wait longer for a health diagnosis and they are more often told “it’s all in their heads.”

That can be lethal; diagnostic error causes as many as 40000 to 80000 deaths in the US alone.

The tendency to attribute women’s physical complaints to mental illness has its roots in the history of ‘hysteria’.

Hysteria was the worst kind of gaslighting.

It was a mythical female disorder that was blamed on a ‘wandering womb’ or sensitive nerves and eventually, thanks to the (in)famous Sigmund Freud – the father of modern psychology came to be seen as a psychological problem.

(Tune in to the video above where we reveal some little known facts about the father of modern psychology ...)

Today, we want to give you some real reasons behind itchy skin because itchy skin is often put in the too hard basket and blamed on stress.

So, what could be causing persistent itching?

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