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When chronic illness is invisible and others doubt your reality

My chronic pain is invisible so everyone thinks I am fine but I am barely functioning and I feel like I am lying about my own experience.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The gap between internal experience and external validation creates a profound existential loneliness.

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