Women are conditioned to be pleasers and it’s making us sick. “Mystery illness” and autoimmune conditions are common in women. 80% of people diagnosed with autoimmune disorders are women and twice as many women experience depression more than men during their lives. Many of these women are gaslit and told their symptoms aren’t real. The awareness about emotional repression, abuse and how it impacts the body is less in our medical field. A body will show the signs of betrayal she’s lived through, as conditioned to please everyone and become the self-sacrificing machine. We need to empower women to start setting boundaries, to know toxic work environments, relationships and not saying what we actually feel can and does make us sick. We need to stop glorifying the do-it-all person and start honoring limits.
