People who have thyroid disease can experience a myriad of emotional and physical symptoms. Aside from the stress that they may feel, there’s plenty of evidence showing that thyroid disease and Hashimoto’s are also positively correlated to higher rates of anxiety, depression, and alexithymia (an inability to describe emotions). Having a chronic illness can be difficult because our symptoms are often invisible to others, and they may not understand how we’re truly feeling. We might try to pretend