BODYInvisible Illness signals
Anonymous thoughts about invisible illness.
Looking fine while experiencing something entirely different.
You look fine. You are frequently told you look fine.
The gap between external presentation and internal reality.
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Invisible illness is the experience of managing a condition that leaves no visible evidence — mental illness, chronic pain, autoimmune disease — in a world that tends to believe what it can see. You look fine. The looking fine is a project that costs significant energy.
Anonymous thoughts about invisible illness posted here are from people doing the constant translation between what's happening internally and what can be said externally — the honest account of not being believed.