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Why chronic illness makes you feel like you're living undercover among healthy people

My coworkers make jokes about calling in sick and I have to laugh along while knowing they have no idea what real sick days look like. I feel like I'm living undercover in the healthy world.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The invisibility of ongoing illness creates alienation from casual assumptions about health and capacity.

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“Where Are You with Chronic illness — living with a long condition?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.