Brianna's Story: Sleepwalking Nightmare

The Medical Detectives

Soft Skills Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

3.6 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In one of our most intense and eye-opening episodes yet, we sit down with Brianna, whose journey through the medical system took years of misdiagnoses, dismissal, and frustration before she finally got the answers she needed. What started as a mysterious sleep disorder—marked by violent night terrors, hallucinations, and sleepwalking—was repeatedly brushed off as anxiety and depression. But after years of dealing with her symptoms she was finally given a shocking diagnosis.

Join us as we dive into her harrowing yet inspiring story, exposing the dangerous gap between psychiatric and medical diagnoses—especially for women. With humor, resilience, and raw honesty, Brianna takes us through the medical gaslighting, the fight for a real diagnosis, and the relief of finally being heard.

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0:00.0	Hey Anna.
0:09.9	Hello.
0:12.3	Wasn't this the craziest one so far?
0:15.3	I think it might be, honestly.
0:18.1	I still am kind of reeling from some of the things that she told us happened. I definitely
0:24.0	feel this is our most dangerous episode, one might say. It also unfortunately is another example of
0:31.8	someone being told they have mental health issues when the issue is a lot deeper.
0:39.7	Yeah. And I, you know, we get into it, but there seems to be a great divide between
0:45.8	psychiatric conditions and medical conditions. And I think after listening to enough of our
0:54.1	shows, we can acknowledge that they both sometimes go hand in hand.
0:59.3	And that unfortunately for women, we are being disproportionately diagnosed with anxiety and depression that is preventing us from getting the actual medical diagnosis.
1:16.1	Yeah, I think it's a chat for another day, but the way women get painted sometimes
1:20.0	is that we're unstable just generally.
1:23.3	And I think that stories like this highlight why that's so dangerous.
1:28.8	Well, let's get into it. Let's get into this ride.
1:34.3	Hi, Brianna.
1:36.3	Welcome to the medical detectives.
1:38.3	We are so excited to have you.
1:40.3	So excited to come on.
1:42.3	Thank you.
1:49.5	I'm going to do something that we actually don't normally do on the medical detectives, which is we are going to reveal one of your diagnoses immediately.
1:56.0	What?
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