a book project to express emotions of people
living with crohn’s desease.

Around 10 million people worldwide live with Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis — chronic, autoimmune conditions that affect the digestive system but leave scars everywhere: in the body, the mind, and human connections.
Those affected face shifting symptoms: pain, fatigue, malnutrition, chronic diarrhea, fever, and others.
On top of that come surgeries, invasive tests, evasive conversations with doctors. For life.
But the deepest challenge is emotional: learning to live with a body that changes the rules without warning, coping with constant stress, with isolation, with a life made of sudden pauses and question marks even on simple tasks.

Relationships grow fragile, work becomes uncertain, freedom shrinks. It is proven: those with chronic intestinal illness are at higher risk of depression.

This project gathers fragments of daily life.
Small personal notes that give voice to those who, from the outside, seem just fine. A project that tries to picture the invisible.

Not every disability is visible.