Lived Through This
When Your Disorder Doesn’t Exist
‘Medically unexplained’ symptoms are as misunderstood as they are common. Here’s what I wish people knew.
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12 min readNov 10, 2020
At 24 years old, my stomach hurt. A lot. It wasn’t “gastrointestinal discomfort” (though multiple doctors tried to argue about my diet), nor did it indicate that I was…
