My invisible illness, which could have taken my life, crept up and pounced on me during a heavy-stress, high-loss year and inundated me in a tsunami of deluge and darkness that illuminated the absence ...

This photo helped me pinpoint the feelings I'd struggled to explain to people — even my own family — for years. From the summer of 2005 — and for the next 13 years— I battled a disease with no name.

As Kerry Clayton, 35, from Rochester, lay in a hospital bed bored, in pain, and on strong medication, she passed the time with drawing. She began designing t-shirts and posted pictures of them to ...

I suffered a mental health injury that decommissioned me for eight months. I was told, “You will never go back to work.” But I fought tooth and nail to go back full-time with my department. Have you ...

Many Americans are navigating daily life with chronic health issues that aren’t always apparent to onlookers, such as mental health conditions, autoimmune disorders, and diseases like diabetes, ...

The person introducing me mentioned among other things that I was diagnosed with lupus over thirty years ago. At the conclusion of the introduction, I walked up onto the stage. I had taken time to ...

I’ve been sick with an invisible illness for 24 years. Today, we’d call me a “long hauler” from a virus I caught in 2001. I never regained my stamina nor lost the feeling of being sick, even though ...

When Natalie Busari was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 2016, just like many others in the same boat, the advice was to find a community for support. But she quickly identified a problem – ...

From the summer of 2005 — and for the next 13 years— I battled a disease with no name. It hung from my shoulders and tugged at my limbs. Its heaviness wrapped around me, weighing me down with ...