Sometimes, the hardest part about being sick the way that I am is that on most days, I don't look sick. I suffer from an invisible illness. Those who I haven't told, don't know that I'm sick and those who do know, rarely understand the severity. In my last few months, I have felt misunderstood, doubted, and judged because I can't do what a healthy person can...and yet, I look healthy. Managing my invisible illness, neurocardiogenic syncope (whether from a virus producing POTS or from my pituitary macroadenoma) would be significantly easier, if people understood it. Unfortunately, I have rarely met anyone who has any familiarity with dysautonomia. Dysautonomia is an umbrella term used to describe several different medical conditions that cause a malfunction of the Autonomic Nervous System. The autonomic nervous system controls "automatic" functions of the body like heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, pupil dilation and constriction, kidney func...