Dr. Sue Varma

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1,488 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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Yeah.

And when I tell this to patients the first time, they laugh at me.

They're like, Dr.

Yes.

And of agency and making you believe that you are a capable person and making it a part of your identity.

Because one thing I should say is there's this whole idea of the default mode network.

And maybe we can talk about that.

And that is the ruminating part of the brain.

I mean, they can become that.

I mean, to me, that feels like gaslighting, right?

Like being told you're fine and you're minimizing and dismissing a person.

So that's more like an, I, I understand that the doctors are well-intentioned.

They weren't trained.

And it's

limited, right?

So they're just going off of the knowledge I have.

And for some people, that can be reassuring to say, okay, at least I know it's not something that's within your domain.

These are the five doctors I went to, and there's nothing in their domain that they can fix.

Because that's what I would say.

But I would tell this woman to not be the ostrich optimist, right?

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