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==Examples== Invisible illnesses may be physical or psychological illnesses, for example: <div style="column-count:2"> *[[Arthritis]] *[[Cancer]] *[[Chronic pain]] *[[Depression]] *[[Endometriosis]] *[[Fibromyalgia]] *HIV/AIDS *[[Inflammatory bowel disease]] *[[Irritable bowel syndrome]] *[[systemic lupus erythematosus|Lupus]] *[[Lyme disease]] *[[Myalgic encephalomyelitis|ME/]][[Chronic fatigue syndrome|CFS]] *[[Post-polio syndrome]] *[[Migraine]] *[[Multiple sclerosis]], which can be either visible or invisible *[[:category:Thyroid diseases|Thyroid illnesses]]<ref name="Donoghue2000"/><ref name="Arroll2014" />{{Rp|14-23}} </div> Some invisible illnesses are well understood by medical professionals and have clear [[:Category:Medical tests|medical tests]] and treatments, for example [[diabetes]], but others are poorly understood or [[medically unexplained physical symptoms|"medically unexplained"]] and often go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, for example [[ME/CFS]], [[fibromyalgia]].<ref name="Arroll2014">{{Cite book | title = Invisible Illness: Coping with misunderstood conditions|pages=|isbn=978-1-84709-306-6|edition=|volume=|language=en|title-link= | url = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1oReBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT19&ots=0hTOdouShM&pg=PT20#v=onepage&q&f=true|access-date= | date = 2014-09-18|publisher=SPCK | last = Arroll | first = Megan A. | authorlink = Megan Arroll|veditors=|others=|doi=|oclc=|quote=|archive-url=|archive-date=|location=}}</ref>
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