Health, or rather the lack thereof

Excerpt: Living with illness is not easy especially when it is not a visible one. As a species we tend to disregard anything that is not visible. If we can't see it, we can't prove it and therefore it doesn't exist and it must be a lie. Living with illness is not easy especially when it is not a visible one. As a species we tend to disregard anything that is not visible. If we can't see it, we can't prove it and therefore it doesn't exist and it must be a lie. I know that I give up trying to explain to others that I have a migraine but there is no pain. It doesn't compute. We have no empathy.

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