Summary
For most of her life, Janice Wilson suffered from strange and terrifying attacks at night. She would wake up, suddenly, feeling as though she was being choked or strangled. The next day, there would be blood on her pillow. Sometimes she’d have up to 50 of these attacks a night. It left her terrified and exhausted. For years, doctors put it down to psychological problems due to a trauma in her past. Then she met a doctor who found the astonishing, true cause. In “The Diagnosis”, Janice and the doctor who diagnosed her come together in a studio, to tell this remarkable story.
The programme is presented and produced by Helena Merriman, who was inspired to tell other people’s stories of diagnosis after receiving her own surprise diagnosis a few years ago.
Editor: Emma Rippon
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Henry Ackley disappeared from his home on the edge of Rendelsham Forest somewhere around the end of June 2019. |
| 0:45.5 | They come every night now. The place don't believe me and please. I just need you to get in touch. |
| 0:52.2 | What we uncovered is a mystery that has sent us deep into England's past. |
| 0:57.0 | To an area steeped in witchcraft, the occult, secret government operations. |
| 1:03.0 | Now we have multiple sites of |
| 1:05.0 | quiet lights with a similar shape property. |
| 1:08.0 | And something that might indeed be altogether, |
| 1:11.0 | otherworldly. |
| 1:15.0 | This is the Whisperer in Darkness. |
| 1:18.0 | Available now on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:21.0 | Hi, I'm Riana Dillon and this is seriously. A few years ago I got a diagnosis. I walked into a doctor surgery thinking it was just a routine appointment and 15 minutes later I came out |
| 1:36.0 | knowing everything was going to be different. I remember I got on the bus home and I read through the leaflets he'd given me and then I pulled out my phone and I started googling. |
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