Why Do I Hide My Pain?

For years, I became an expert at hiding my pain. Not because I wanted to, but because the world taught me that showing it made me weak, dramatic, or inconvenient. Whether it was the sharp pangs of fibromyalgia or the deep fatigue of rheumatoid arthritis, I smiled through the suffering. I laughed when I wanted to cry. I masked the truth so well, even I began to question it.

Why do I hide my pain? Because society rewards silence, not honesty. Especially for women, vulnerability is often misread as fragility. But the cost of emotional masking is steep: disconnection, self-doubt, and loneliness.

It wasn’t until I found community—people who truly understood—that I began to unlearn the shame tied to physical pain. And once I stopped suppressing it, I could finally start healing.

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