Why exhaustion can make you see things that aren't there

You drive home after a long shift and see someone standing at the roadside. It turns out to be a sign. Chinelle Miller had that happen more than once, and her first thought was that something was wrong with her. She is a physician and multidisciplinary artist. This episode is based on her article "Why seeing things doesn't mean you're losing your mind," published on KevinMD. You will hear what she found when she looked into it, and how the same experience shows up for other people she talked to. She describes what she was told when she raised it with her own therapist, why the same thing can show up with grief, and how she caught herself trying to pathologize her own experience. She explains why she thinks diagnostic terms have become buzzwords, the questions she tells people to ask themselves, and when the answer is to stop researching and ask someone. Stay to the end for her case that the expert, not the internet, is who gets to say it's normal.

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