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Linda N

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"I really resonate with this article. I also let RA become my identity, for the first 5 years of my diagnosis. I was in denial about my depression until a close friend suggested I got help. I went to counseling to learn how to better cope with adjusting to a life-long progressive debilitating painful disease. I have a severe form of it and have tried nearly every drug on the market. It feels like it’s been a constant flare with very little to no respite since I was diagnosed. But I realized one day that I was letting the fear consume me. Fear of how fast it will progress, how differently it will change my life, my marriage, my ability to do the work that I love, my inability to have children due to the severity. But now I’ve realized that the fear cannot consume me. I can express gratitude for many things in my life including a job I love and a husband who helps me in immeasurable ways."

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  • Member Since 2013