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When environmental illness feels invisible to others

My apartment is next to a dry cleaner and I wake up with headaches but when I try to explain this to people they act like I am making it up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The subjective experience of environmental sensitivity meets social skepticism, creating isolation around bodily knowledge.

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“Where Are You with Environmental health — toxins and exposures?”

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