If I could create a tool for a problem we don’t fully understand yet, it would be something I call “The Unseen Pain Map” it is a travel safe mirror that shows you a heatmap of your body. It would reveal the places that are under stress or quietly deteriorating even if you haven’t noticed anything wrong yet.

The unknown problem in this sense is that some physical problems don’t show symptoms until it’s too late especially chronic ones like fatigue, tightness, or even emotional pain stored physically.

This idea comes from my own anxiety around health. I hate the feeling of not knowing when something is building up in my body. Sometimes I’ll feel fine one day and then suddenly wake up sick, or drained, or in pain. That unpredictability makes me feel disconnected from my own body creating trust issues with myself. As if im like I’m missing the warning signs. It happens with getting sick, with fatigue, and definitely with my period. It’s like my body knows what’s coming, but I don’t and I wish I had a way to see or feel it sooner.

The Unseen Pain Map would solve that. It wouldn’t diagnose, but it would visualize. Maybe the mirror glows orange on your shoulders because you’ve been clenching from stress. Maybe your stomach pulses red from tension before it becomes nausea. It’s about catching the subtle patterns we ignore or don’t even notice.