Professor Lorie Novak's self portraiture project 100 Migraines helps to visualize the experience of those struggling with migraines in an article on the subject in The New York Times.
From the April 6, 2016 article "Women’s Emotions Do Not Cause Their Migraines" by Joanna Klein:
“It was considered psychological, or that I was a nervous overachiever, so I would never tell people that I have them,” said Lorie Novak, an artist in her sixties who has suffered from migraines since she was 8.
After reading Joan Didion’s 1968 essay “In Bed,” about the writer’s struggle with migraines, Ms. Novak decided to tackle the representation of these debilitating headaches. Starting in 2009, Ms. Novak photographed herself every time she got a migraine.
Under the hashtag #notjustaheadache, hundreds of others on Twitter and Instagram have demonstrated their own frustration with a widespread lack of understanding of the reality of migraines.
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