Face full of cold sores, bags under my eyes due to lack of sleep because of the discomfort an irritating infection was giving me  it was probably no wonder a friend took me quietly aside this week and asked if i was feeling ok because I didn’t look at all well as the evidence was so plain to see.

We take it for granted don’t we sometimes that being ill must involve some distinguishable sign as proof of our ailment yet there are so many illnesses people struggle with that aren’t always visible to the naked eye but doesn’t mean they are any less real .

Depression , anxiety , dementia, endometriosis, colitis , irritable bowel syndrome , fibromyalgia  are just some of the chronic conditions that the team behind the Sick –living with invisible illness exhibition are attempting to facilitate more empathy and understanding for .

So get yourselves along to see their project at Sun pier house between 4th and 27^th August and learn a bit more about how just because someone doesn’t look like they’re ill it doesn’t mean that they aren’t .