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When invisible illness meets skeptical responses

My chronic pain is invisible and people think I'm faking it or being dramatic, including some of my doctors, and I'm exhausted from trying to prove I'm suffering.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The social demand for visible evidence of internal experience creates additional suffering beyond the original condition.

Ideas that help explain it
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