Dealing with Dismissal: When No One Believes Your Symptoms

Find people who understand, or find people who are willing to educate themselves about chronic pain/illness. I have a brother who has always minimized or dismissed my pain and it really hurt a lot so I get it

I feel like I struggle with this a lot too. Having one or two people you trust to talk about it outside of family can help a lot. Also, looking up good coping mechanisms might help as well

Your pain is real. Your close ones don’t believe your in pain because you don’t bring it up as much as your pain affects you. The more I said when I was hurting, the more people believed