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Tag - chronic illness

In the middle is a blue body facing backwards. Nearby on its left, are two smaller anatomical orange bodies wrapped around running black and white lines. Layered elements of medical scans, imagery and type converging and falling into each other, fill the background. Red and white spots fall across the page.

Essentially Normal Studies: An artist’s attempt to express the invisible and unseen

A person with short dark hair and a red shirt sits in a dim theatre. We see the profile of their face and a purple glow around them. A screen shows a person with long black hair looking downwards, surrounded by a cloudy, starry sky.

Recalibrating life: Coming face-to-face with chronic illness

A person wearing a red and yellow sari stands towards the left of the image, head turned, looking forward. In the background are trees, buildings and the blue sky.

Review: Porochista Khakpour’s ‘Sick: A Memoir’

What access to a smartphone has meant for me as a person living with chronic fatigue syndrome

Editorial: If our pain isn’t seen, where do we go?

In this illustration, a woman is seated on her bed in a bright-coloured room with shades of orange, yellow and pink. She is on her bed reading under her blanket while her pillow is on the floor. There is a coffee mug lying on the floor, half-spilled, next to a magazine. On the other side of the bed is the woman’s phone, blinking.

Looking Back:‘Skin Stories’ in 2017

In the illustration, the same figure is mirrored - on the left, the person, who has short hair, is lying down with eyes closed on a green pillowcase, and on the right, their eyes are open.

I’ve been in pain for two years, but I still struggle to accept that it’s ‘real’

Two figures with their back to us are embracing each other lovingly. They are surrounded by circles of bright colours – shades of yellow and red.

Beyond penetration: Why touch is so important

Made with Love by 13 Llama Interactive for Point of View