#50: Gaslighting, Mental Health, and Endometriosis w/ Amy Corfeli

Hello Uterus

It’s a story we’ve unfortunately heard multiple times on this podcast. A delayed diagnosis that goes on for years, decades even, all thanks to a mix of gaslighting, misinformation, and lack of specialists and awareness for conditions such as endometriosis.

Medical gaslighting doesn’t only affect physical health by allowing conditions to progress. It can lead to a domino effect of confusion, self-doubt, anxiety, or depression.

Our guest today has lived through these difficult experiences and feelings. She's now committed to helping the endometriosis community through advocacy and education.

Amy Corfeli from the In Sixteen Years of Endometriosis podcast joins us, sharing her journey to reaching a diagnosis, learning to find self-love again, and how you can still live your best life while living with chronic illness. She shares tips on what helps her to prepare for doctors appointments after years of medical trauma. And she gives us insight into how this year’s Endo Summit went and what we can look forward to with the endometriosis community coming together.

Lastly, we end on a high note that you may or may not believe! I promise that Carol hasn’t been lying! Go check the Apple store and download the Uterinekind app today. 💜

Thanks for listening, learning, and being you. And join us back here every Tuesday, in service to you, uterinekind.

Follow Amy on Instagram at @in16yearsofendo

Amy's website with excellent sources on endometriosis: insixteenyears.com

Amy's book, Finding Piece with a Devastating Disease: insixteenyears.com/book

[Adenomyosis study mentioned in the beginning of the show: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25728241/]