{"id":1896,"date":"2026-04-27T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/how-a-support-group-opened-my-eyes-to-the-reality-of-invisible-illness\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:00:09","slug":"how-a-support-group-opened-my-eyes-to-the-reality-of-invisible-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/how-a-support-group-opened-my-eyes-to-the-reality-of-invisible-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"How a support group opened my eyes to the reality of invisible illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columnist\/2026\/04\/27\/how-support-group-opened-eyes-reality-invisible-illness\/\" title=\"How a support group opened my eyes to the reality of invisible illness\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/New-Column-graphic-800x300.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"161180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember much about the support group meeting that changed everything. I don&#8217;t remember the facilitator&#8217;s name, the other people&#8217;s faces, how long we sat there, or what anyone actually said. What I remember is the moment, somewhere in the middle of someone else&#8217;s story, when I looked around the room and the thought [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columnist\/2026\/04\/27\/how-support-group-opened-eyes-reality-invisible-illness\/\">How a support group opened my eyes to the reality of invisible illness<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columnist\/2026\/04\/27\/how-support-group-opened-eyes-reality-invisible-illness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember much about the support group meeting that changed everything. I don&#8217;t remember the facilitator&#8217;s name, the other people&#8217;s faces, how long we sat there, or what anyone actually said. What I remember is the moment, somewhere in the middle of someone else&#8217;s story, when I looked around the room and the thought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}