
The Gaslit Truth
Welcome to The Gaslit Truth Podcast – the mental health wake-up call you didn’t know you needed. Dr. Teralyn and Therapist Jenn are here to rip the bandaid off and drag you into the messy, uncomfortable, and brutally misunderstood world of the mind.
Think you’ve got it all figured out? Think again. Everything you thought you knew about mental health is about to be flipped on its head. From outdated diagnoses to the shady underbelly of Big Pharma, these truth-telling therapists are here to tear down the myths, expose the industry’s dirty secrets, and unpack the uncomfortable realities most people are too afraid to touch.
In a world drowning in misinformation, The Gaslit Truth Podcast cuts through the noise with raw, unfiltered conversations that break down walls and challenge the so-called experts. This isn’t your grandma’s therapy session – it's a relentless, no-holds-barred exploration of what’s really going on in the world of mental health.
Warning: This podcast isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for those who are ready to question everything, confront the lies head-on, and dive deep into the truth you were never meant to find. Because real healing starts with facing the ugly, uncomfortable truths nobody wants to admit.
Welcome to The Gaslit Truth Podcast – where mental health gets real, the revelations are explosive, and nothing is off-limits. Tune in, open your mind, and prepare to unlearn everything you thought you knew.
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The Mental healthcare system almost killed me, but I'm still here to tell the story. Sarah Trueb's Fight Against Medical Abuse
What happens when the very system designed to heal you becomes the source of your deepest trauma? Sarah Trueb's life changed forever when, at just 39 years old, she suffered a stroke after years of medication mismanagement and medical dismissal. Once a successful massage therapist helping others heal, Sarah found herself fighting for her own survival against a healthcare system determined to label her physical symptoms as "all in her head."
Sarah's journey began with seeking help for PTSD following a family trauma. Instead of appropriate trauma care, she was immediately diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed lithium—the first in a cascade of 33 different medications that would wreak havoc on her body and brain over the next several years. Despite showing clear signs of medication sensitivity and developing increasingly severe neurological symptoms, healthcare providers continued to view her through a purely psychiatric lens.
The most chilling aspect of Sarah's story is how her stroke warning signs—numbness, facial drooping, and slurred speech—were dismissed as "stress" or "anxiety" by medical staff. Even after suffering a stroke while under medical supervision, Sarah faced continued skepticism, being prematurely discharged from rehabilitation and labeled with "conversion disorder," a diagnosis suggesting her symptoms were psychologically rather than physically based.
Today, Sarah lives with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), a complex condition affecting over 300,000 Americans that disrupts how the brain and body communicate. Her symptoms include chronic pain, seizures, vision problems, movement disorders, and more. Despite these debilitating physical symptoms, she continues to be accused of "faking" when seeking medical care.
Sarah's powerful testimony serves as a warning about the dangers of medical gaslighting and the deadly consequences of siloed healthcare thinking. Her advocacy for the TRUBE Act aims to create systemic change and prevent others from suffering a similar fate. This episode forces us to confront an uncomfortable truth: sometimes the most dangerous place for a vulnerable patient is inside the very system meant to provide healing.
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Well, hey everybody, you may have been gaslit into accepting unethical practices from your trusted healthcare system. We are your whistleblowing shrinks, dr Teralyn and therapist Jen, and you have landed on the Gaslit Truth Podcast, and today we've got a special guest that's here for us, sarah Troube. Welcome to the show, sarah. Hey guys, I said your last name right. Good day, we got this. If any of you are watching YouTube right now, terry looks a little crisp.
Dr. Teralyn:Like a moth to the flame. I said the flame.
Therapist Jenn:Hey look how you brought the flame pun in. Look at that.
Therapist Jenn:Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, I like that right. It's pretty flame on, okay, all right, everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that right. It's pretty flame on, okay, all right, everybody. We've got Sarah here. I'm going to introduce her.
Therapist Jenn:Once upon a time, everyone, sarah was a successful alternative healthcare professional in a career that she really loved, and she was helping others heal through medical and manual massage therapy and was enjoying life. And in August of 2023, that world was altered when she had a stroke and her dominant side was affected by paralysis, which was brought on by a healthcare system's unethical practices of gaslighting, abuse, neglect and corruption. She was later diagnosed with FND, which is functional neurological disorder, which is a rare and complex form of PTSD. Fnd disrupts how the brain and the body communicate, and they affect the nervous system's ability to send and receive signals. And some fun facts here according to the?
Therapist Jenn:U of Birmingham, alabama, over 300,000 Americans live with FND. Her symptoms include chronic pain, sensory issues, vision problems, slurred speech, stroke-like episodes, tard dyskinesia, anxiety, tremors, spasms, panic attacks, blackouts and more. There's no cure for this, and the future is uncertain for her. So, despite these challenges, though, sarah is determined to share her story, to raise awareness, to debunk the misconceptions and advocate for anyone else who has FND to bring hope and understanding to the people that are affected. Sarah, welcome to the show.
Sarah Trueb:Hey, I bring the whole kitchen sink.
Therapist Jenn:Yes, yeah, all of it Shit's rolling downhill and you got it all and we're at the bottom of the hill ready to catch all of it, Like this is what's happening.
Sarah Trueb:This malpractice, unethical stuff needs to stop and it's affecting everybody, worldwide, not just me, not nationwide, it's worldwide. And so I'm going to go ahead and kind of bring my stuff to kind of tell my story and kind of go from there. So I've suffered from PTSD probably let's see probably about a decade. That kind of stemmed from a family member who attempted suicide. I had to, you know, save their life basically and call 911, do the whole shebang with that.
Sarah Trueb:And then I didn't start seeking mental health in probably about three years, in probably about three years, fight or flight, you know constant, you know triggers and stuff. I thought I could manage it, you know. So then I was like I need to seek help. About that same time I was like I need to maybe make a change in my career, do a little less physical work, and with medical massage therapy you deal with people's pain and mental. So I thought I don't really want to go into school for chiropractic and I don't want to go in for physical therapy. That's usually the younger generation, um, cause about that time I was um 35 ish somewhere around there and I was like I need to slow down. So I thought it was a good idea to go back to school for psychology and that's your first mistake right there.
Therapist Jenn:I know, man, we got. We understand. Yeah, where were you guys? You know know what, back then we didn't get. We were in school, probably we wouldn't have been able to help you, then like that took us a while open a can of worms.
Sarah Trueb:Um, yeah, um.
Sarah Trueb:But I also went back to school because I wanted to be like my mom, who was a psychology double major in psychology and teaching and I love kids but you know, teaching I don't want to be a teacher either. And then another family member of mine was going to the same school for nurse practitioner school for nurse practitioner, and so I think about that time we were going to probably graduate about the same time and I thought it was cool because my siblings are 15, 13, and 8 years age gap and so I thought it was a good idea to graduate from the same school, because I've never had that experience, obviously. So it started out with our local mental health psych hospital and they had the programs and so I was like, okay, outpatient, let's try this. I was more or less expecting just group therapy, talking to other local people about their problems, and then you know, with you know that it's kind of a bio, psycho, social thing my family member that attempted went to this place back in 2015. So I was like, okay, let's go. And instantly they wanted to put me on lithium.
Sarah Trueb:I want to say lithium, and then visceral.
Dr. Teralyn:Do you remember? I'm just curious do you remember how you were presenting at that time that lithium was the offer for you? What did they see in you If you wouldn't mind? Yeah, sharing that.
Sarah Trueb:Bipolar disorder. Um anxiety. Um, I don't think they even saw the PTSD, even though it was like written.
Dr. Teralyn:That's why you were there.
Therapist Jenn:Right, right.
Sarah Trueb:Okay, so that, and then.
Therapist Jenn:Did you start Sarah? Did you start that? Did you start taking the lithium?
Sarah Trueb:Yeah, and instant I the visceral, the I think it was more the visceral I felt suicidal. Okay, I was like I literally was wrapped in a sheet and I was like, okay, you know, this group therapy is tomorrow and I got to make it to tomorrow. I even, you know, called crisis center and I was like I feel like bugs are crawling. It was, it was horrible, um, and so I saw the nurse practitioner and, um, I don't know how we got into the.
Sarah Trueb:I kind of knew that I was hypersensitive to medication because, you know, birth control, um, opioids, it didn't matter. Um, those were the two main things that, looking back, that I noticed that I was having, you know, reactions to medication. But even before that, looking way back, when I was first diagnosed with epilepsy, I was also put on Paxil and then before that, I had been taking Adderall for about four years. I was first dealing with psychiatric not to this extent when I was about 10 years old. So this all started when I was premenstrual, I started my period, little did I know that I had a septate uterus and all these rare malformation and stuff like that.
Dr. Teralyn:So none of this stuff was uncovered for you, it was all just deemed psychological, with a pill as the response attention in school.
Sarah Trueb:She's, you know, sleeping in class. So then that there was no IEP, there was no. Basically your teacher set all the kids with the learning disabilities and then they would, you know, schedule time to, you know, work with us, but we basically sat on out to the side and we were all recommended to be on Adderall and psych drugs, and so we're sitting with these kids that you know were falling behind and so so basically segregated because we had learning disabilities or you know, different things.
Therapist Jenn:So if we look at Sarah, which you were just talking about, just to kind of wrap this here when you were taking the medications that you were talking about previously, when you were taking that lithium what year was that? Where are we timeframe-wise?
Sarah Trueb:That was in 2018.
Therapist Jenn:18. Okay, all right, so between 18 and then 2023, which is when you had your stroke. Okay, yep, fill us in on that gap. Give us the version of that. What was going on during that time that led up to this stroke? Your truth with that.
Sarah Trueb:Yeah, I was in and out of the same mental hospital in 2018. I tried it and then, once you were done with the seven to 10 day treatment, they kept, you know, know, trying different things. And then all of a sudden, well, we're gonna have to discharge you because we can't seem to figure out you know medications. And so I basically got shoved under the rug because you know, oh, you go to this other facility and talk to a therapist, and so that kind of got lost and insurance was an issue as well. And then they finally decided to just keep me on Trilopitol, which was.
Sarah Trueb:I've been on Trilopitol since 1999 when it first came out for the seizures and I was like, okay, cool, you know, I've got bipolar, which runs in our family, and then I feel safe to take trileptal. But here's the thing when I was on trileptal, originally it was the name brand. Well, now with insurance, medicaid, now you can only access the generic and I noticed a difference in you know these, the two drugs, the coloring, and then that ventured in. Okay, I don't notice any difference. This is starting to make me spin out and have these anxiety attacks. And then I was having trouble getting a psychiatrist outside of this hospital, getting you know second opinion, basically, and then, because I am on Medicaid and then I didn't have the money to fork over, you know $300 or more for private. You know psychiatrists, so 21,. That was for kind of a different purpose, but they kept pushing medications, and I think that was the time that I was on um Seroquel, which made me have the side effects of blood pressure.
Therapist Jenn:Seroquel. So so now you're psychotic, now yeah.
Dr. Teralyn:Nothing to see here, or just suddenly psychotic.
Therapist Jenn:No reason, though, there's no reason, and still taking the other drug at the same time, the Triloptole, the generic form. Okay, so you've got polypharmacy being stacked here on you, different drugs being given to you.
Sarah Trueb:And then I've literally taken about 33 that I'm very severely interactive to 33 different drugs Since probably about 2018. But even a little bit before that. But that was a long long time ago, Sure.
Therapist Jenn:So do you? I'm wondering because you're making your way through your timeline. So now we're in like 2021, 2022 we're getting closer to when this stroke occurred.
Sarah Trueb:Okay, and then, uh, 2019, I was on another. Trilactal was always still going to be a thing because of the seizures. And then they, I literally I went to this other psych hospital because, unfortunately, I attempted and I literally was there for like about seven to ten days, which is the average, and I literally saw seven different doctors and how it all, they put me on the full maximum dose of Trilopetal, which sounds like they were trying to chemically restrain you, so that you wouldn't hurt yourself.
Therapist Jenn:Yeah, that's what I'm thinking Were you actively having seizures. No, I wasn't Okay. I just want to clarify that, because this is the seizure medication that you had been on for many, many, many years, so they just keep upping the dose.
Sarah Trueb:I basically saw the trileptal. Oh, you need to be on this. They, they. I was trying to get them to talk to my neurologist. Okay, and my neurologist was like, whatever, you're in a psych hospital, why are you calling me? And then then they wouldn't call, it was just, it was just a mess. And then they basically, okay, you're discharged. We can't seem to help you.
Dr. Teralyn:Oh, so then you were, of course, labeled unhelpful, right Like, even though the damage was likely because of all the stacking of pharmacology, right yeah. And then the chemical restraining. And then you know, the story is really interesting in the fact that you went in for trauma likely PTSD. You were immediately diagnosed with bipolar disorder. So from that point forward, it seems like you were treated as a hardcore psychiatric patient to the point of being chemically restrained and then labeled unhelpful because none of it was working. As a matter of fact, if you think about your story, it was causing you to be worse and worse and worse, to the point of trying to take your own life, which is a common thing. It's a common side effect and I'm going to guess that nobody ever put that together for you that this could have been a result of polypharmacy. So here we are, working our way up towards this stroke, and if you could go ahead and get to that part of the story, let's kind of jump ahead a little mostly thought.
Sarah Trueb:I scuffed up my knees. We didn't really. The doctors didn't even think about, you know, head trauma, even though I was just like I might have some, you know. But life goes on, yeah. And then two months later, I'm just, I'm on this crazy fucked up roller coaster. I tried every coping skill known to man, from going to bed at 11, to trying to reduce my workload to you name it. I tried it. Um, working out more and pool Um yeah, all all the lifestyle stuff right.
Sarah Trueb:And uh, that night, um, crazy enough, my therapist my therapist that I saw probably no more than a year prior came down the stairs. Her daughter was like, oh, why are you crying? And my mom helps. You know with you know people that are sad. You know with you, know people that are sad.
Sarah Trueb:And this person came down, no, acknowledge, no, like like message cell phone. Do you need help? You know, because obviously she had her kids and she drove off and I'm spinning, I'm in the psychosis. I don't have any clue how to dial 911, nobody to help me at this point.
Sarah Trueb:So I somehow got to the psych hospital that which is closer to um than the hospital, and the phone didn't work outside. It was locked, um cause God forbid. It was six o'clock and we have to lock up the hospital. That should have been open 24, seven with a receptionist and I think I stood there for probably 20 minutes, got admitted pretty quick and my blood pressure I was trying to get my blood pressure to stay low as much as possible. Three, six hour wait, um, and then talked to this tech and by about bedtime my blood pressure was stupid high, the stroke high, and that nurse for 45 minutes. You've been here before you. You know you need to stop crying and you know, and I was like I need to get on my meds for the day. I haven't taken it.
Therapist Jenn:So you were actively having a stroke during this time, not yet, not yet.
Sarah Trueb:My blood pressure was skyrocketing.
Therapist Jenn:It was ramping up, it was getting you there.
Sarah Trueb:Okay, pressure was, sky was ramping up, it was getting you there, okay, and so this nurse for 45 minutes is like verbally, mentally abusing me and not you know well, she was dismissing you as a typical psych patient right, yeah, looking at your record, you don't have any, yeah you don't have any health problems.
Sarah Trueb:This is all psych, you're a frequent, you are your record, yep, yep. So I was like, fuck this, I'm gonna go to try to lay down, try to not have a stroke and and I wish at that point that I could call, you know, 911. I didn't think about it until later. And then we had a patient that caused a that incident on that patient for why I was having FND or conversion At that point. It was just conversion disorder because they slammed the doors and then caused another two patients PTSD and to have a seizure and then they sent those patients to the hospital.
Sarah Trueb:About Sunday is when they that started the stroke and I was like they put me on Zyprazodone and doxepine for sleep and anxiety and then I was also on triliptol, totally stripped me off of Raylar, which I had been on for about three months prior, and that with Raylar I was spinning and having these little issues where I was like I feel like I'm going to fall.
Sarah Trueb:I feel like I'm going to have the same symptoms as when I was on Effexor. Effexor was back in 2005-ish and so I was having like these drop feeling, seizure feelings, but I never fell until July Last, basically was going to lose my job because I was like I need to get mental health services or something, cause something ain't right with this. So back to, so back to. And then the next day I was like I'm having numbness in my fingers, I'm biting my tongue. And then later that day I started noticing my face would droop. And I'm sitting there talking and all of a sudden I stroke out and they dismissed me again. Checked my blood pressure, finally, and it was stroke high. She dismissed me again and she's like well, maybe you're stressed out and maybe you need to get some fresh air. Come back and see me in 45 minutes. And 45 minutes later I had this stroke and off.
Dr. Teralyn:I go. You had all these leading up symptoms. Yeah, was it dismissed as the conversion disorder? Is that what they were dismissing it as?
Sarah Trueb:Yeah, is that what they were? Dismissing it as yeah, I went to. Now, I wasn't diagnosed until I went to the rehab Diagnosed with stroke.
Dr. Teralyn:Is that what you're talking?
Sarah Trueb:about Diagnosed with conversion disorder.
Therapist Jenn:I went to a rehab clinic that did more unethical and so. So just to take a pause for a second sarah, for those of you that are listening, if you don't know too much about what conversion disorder is I think it's a label you don't hear too much about, but it's essentially like um, neurological symptom disorder is kind of what what it's called, but it's like it's coined. A mental illness, everybody Mental illness where someone might have physical symptoms. Somebody like that can't be explained. They're saying by like a medical or a neurological basis. Right, so it's put on somebody as like a mental illness. It can cause issues to movement, sensations, things like that. So they're misdiagnosing, mislabeling here, when there really truly was a significant amount of neurological problems occurring and medical conditions occurring.
Sarah Trueb:Conversion disorder has been outdated in the DM5 book since 2013,. I do believe.
Therapist Jenn:Yeah, and you know what? It's one of the I don't want to say a scapegoat diagnosis, but damn, it's one of the diagnoses you put on somebody when you are a provider and you're like, oh, I've looked at everything, it must be in their head.
Dr. Teralyn:It reminds me of fibromyalgia in some way.
Therapist Jenn:Yes.
Sarah Trueb:Yes, it's basically the new fibromyalgia in some way. Yes, yes, it's basically the new fibromyalgia.
Therapist Jenn:So anyways, okay. So I wanted to just say that, in case people that are listening don't know what that is, what that term is. So here you had some very legitimate medical conditions that were occurring, likely as a result of a misdiagnosis and polypharmacy, and all kinds of shit dumped into your body forever, never, never, in the presence of healthcare providers. And you are there, you are not doing well, asking for help, continue to get dismissed, end up having a stroke, and right in front of them, right, yeah, yes, okay.
Sarah Trueb:Yes, and so I get whisked off and then in the middle of the night I get transferred, three hours away. I'm begging, for I spent a week in the unit for stroke, you know bird watch. And then they I was begging them for mental health services because I'm like at this point I wanted to safely taper off this medication, to safely taper off this medication, and the psychiatrist came in. He never told me his name. My doctor for that those three weeks was like you need to go back and introduce yourself, and then they would not give me a hand splint, they would not give me a sling. Um, I didn't get my AFO, which is the leg brace, until it was a souvenir. For you know. Yay, completing rehab, they gave me somebody else's medication, had a seizure coded, um, they lied to my sister, who is my power of attorney, um, and a nurse practitioner at the sister hospital, um, the sister hospital, um so, and told him that I was just having anxiety.
Dr. Teralyn:Um, so you have anxiety. If you just had a stroke, I think I would have a little bit of anxiety too, like that. To me that makes sense that you would have some anxiety here. Um, I keep going in my brain. I keep going when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And so it's like all these people in these psychiatric spaces are only looking for psychiatric problems and that's the siloed view of psychiatry and psychology to not look outside of the psychological or psychiatric issues into medical issues. And so I just kept thinking like, yeah, when you're a psychiatric hammer, everything looks like a psychological nail, and so they're going to keep pounding the nails and keep dismissing the actual physical or physiological issues, which is what happened to you. Even after a goddamn stroke, you're still a psychiatric patient, even though you just had a stroke. How old were you when you had this stroke? 39. A 39-year-old woman has a stroke. And you don't expect them to be anxious or depressed or traumatized or anything like. To me, that would be a typical response to a stroke.
Sarah Trueb:They didn't even tell me until the day before discharge that, oh, good luck, it's all in your head, or psychological, basically, and this is conversion disorder. But then I'm like, you denied me of mental health services for three weeks, for three weeks, and you didn't do any spinal tap. And I'm like there. There's more to this, you know Um.
Therapist Jenn:So so, sarah, cause we've, we've, we've got only less than 10 minutes here, can we? I want to ask you a question, because this is kind of like the bigger picture of what you live with now. So you were, you were given a diagnosis a functional neurological disorder. That that came okay, you were telling us as a result of some of this. Now, for you, what this looks like is vision issues and slurred speech and tardive dyskinesia and anxiety. What do you live with now? What does your world look like now from this Sarah?
Sarah Trueb:I still have seizures, the tardive dyskinesia, slurred speech tics, akathisia, pain. My pain levels have increased from before all this. My pain was like three, four and now it's like six, seven, on a daily, 24-7. I'm physically crashing. Anytime I overexert, um causes an episode, um, you name it, I've seen it, I've dealt with it. Um, I've hit my head, I've fallen Um. Anytime I talk to medical professionals, now I have episodes and then I'm carted off to the hospital and then gaslit and told I'm faking and attention seeking and medication seeking, and then they scratch their heads and I'm like there's nothing you can do for this, no treatment, no medication, Um, and you're still all this, despite having a history of epilepsy, a stroke, all these things like you're still a faker.
Dr. Teralyn:You're still a faker, yeah oh man, what does a person have to be to not be a faker? My question like what? What does a person, what does a person have to be to not be a faker? Is my question what actually has to happen? The things that happen to your brain, the two big ones epilepsy, stroke those are the two biggest things that we think about happening to someone's brain and you're still labeled as an attention seeker, even though those are like the worst things that could happen to somebody who's a TBI. That would be the other one, but I mean, a stroke is a TBI, so anyway, insurance is denying me mental health, um, and physical therapy and according to their guidelines, Um.
Sarah Trueb:So that conversion disorder is still on my record and I think it's the worst thing on your record right now.
Dr. Teralyn:That is the worst thing on your record, yep.
Therapist Jenn:And yet, here and here we have functional like synthetic, synthetic brain injury, after synthetic brain injury, after synthetic brain injury, thirty-three drugs that likely caused more brain injury.
Sarah Trueb:And genetic testing is not foolproof. No, I'm glad you said that, sarah, thank you for saying that because we get arguments on this all the time with people but with black box and having genetic testing done gives me that power of informed consent. Now, now I am, I think there's I forget how 19 medications. There's only three that I know of, and I am taking um and I'm tapering off because I just want to be off of everything Of those three I'm already. Then insurance once means.
Dr. Teralyn:That's a whole separate episode Sarah we're not wasting our life talking about insurance.
Therapist Jenn:No.
Sarah Trueb:After I was discharged from rehab and I was sent back mobility instantly. When I got there, I think the PTSD from all this retarded everything, lost all mobility so I was in a wheelchair again for 14 days, had to urinate in my wheelchair but at discharge. In order to be discharged I had to ambulate Right so I can go to the homeless shelter. I lost my apartment. My career is just down the tubes. I haven't been able to work for two years now, after 20 years, my strength is basically lost.
Sarah Trueb:But when I got in that van I had a seizure and then they wanted me to do the same thing at the homeless shelter. Luckily somebody had common sense to get a wheelchair and so I didn't have to do that. But yeah, they were going to the van to be discharged. And then, not only that, they, they were like scurrying around trying to figure out what to do with me because the homeless shelter was like oh, this is a liability, this is you know all the legal stuff, um, which I get, and, uh, I am thankful for them. Um, they helped me um, transition back to the hospital and got me with another rehab, got my mobility back in order. But that was just unnecessary, for why force somebody to ambulate? And then they were going to tell me oh, we made a mistake discharging you. You have the option to go to the homeless shelter or you have the option to come back in with us. And I'm like bull fuck yeah.
Therapist Jenn:So, Sarah, for people who are listening to this here, what do you want, what's your message that you want people to know and I know that's a hard thing to say here as we wrap up and to try to put it into, like you know, a Reader's Digest version, because there's a lot to this story but what do you, what's your message to people, Sarah? What do you want people to take away from this?
Sarah Trueb:You. You have to remember realistically. You see psychiatrists for one unit, which is more than likely seven and a half minutes, but if you are lucky, 15 to 22 minutes. When you are a health care provider who accepts insurance. Most likely they are watching the clock and, like as a massage therapist, I worked at a job and we had a point person that would go around scratching on the door, yep. But if you saw this doctor one time a month to manage these drugs, that is only 90 minutes to probably three hours annually. So do your math. So do your math. If it doesn't make sense, if your math ain't math in with this, it's not worth your time.
Dr. Teralyn:Go find something else to do, go find another second opinion and to me and I just because we need to wrap up today's episode. Unfortunately, um, I think this is another episode on, uh, regaining your agency. Um it, because it appears that so much is, um, so much of ourselves is given up to somebody else to make decisions for, to tell us what to do, to tell us where to go, to tell us what's real in our lives, to tell us what's not real in our lives. Regaining the sense of self and understanding that you also have a lot of knowledge. You're literally the only one who has knowledge about what's going on in your own body. You can describe those things to not take.
Dr. Teralyn:The dismissal of this is a psychiatric issue, and a psychiatric issue only when. I think you knew better. I think you absolutely knew that it wasn't, but nobody was there to listen. And so if you're a provider listening to this episode, this is an exercise in listening. This is an exercise in validating lived experience, listening and digging further than just being a psychological hammer finding a name.
Sarah Trueb:One more thing I am trying to make a petition bill on changeorg, the TRUBE Act, and that is going to change. I want this to change because this shouldn't have ever, ever, ever happened and it leads into suicide and death, premature death, and I want a change to happen. I'm doing this in memory of my mother, who was a psychology, and she would be just flabbergasted at what happened to me, and so I want change. If we're going to make uh, healthcare, you know great again, let's do it, let's do it the right way, yeah, um well, thank you.
Therapist Jenn:Thank you for coming on the show, sarah. Thank you for sharing your story with us. Um, it's it's. It's been an honor to have you on here, and I know it's not the easiest thing in the world to sit here for an hour even and do this, and you're doing it. So thank you for being here. For those of you if you made it to the end, you've been listening to the Gaslit Truth podcast. If you would like to send us your Gaslit Truth stories, you can do that at thegaslittruthpodcast at gmailcom. You can also find us anywhere that you listen to podcasts and we are on all the socials. Give us the five stars, let us know what you think of the show, and thank you again, sarah, for coming on.
Dr. Teralyn:You're welcome. I want to add one more thing to our listeners. Please head on over to changeorg and support the TRUE Act. True, true. Sorry, t-r-u-e-b is how it's spelled, correct? Okay, so when you're looking for it, that's how it's spelled. So, changeorg, thanks for being here.