Letters

What can you learn from 20 years of coexisting with a chronic condition? Sabrina Skiles shares her story.

Writer Trevis Gleason goes back in time to the day he was diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.

Veteran caregiver Carol Bradley Bursack shares her history of caregiving and offers her younger self the compassion and advice she so often tells others.

K.J. Ramsey was diagnosed with AS in her 20s — she was afraid and in pain, with no idea what the next decade would bring. If only she could go back and talk to that 20 year old...

In her new blog: “Kicking Hoops and Shooting Goals,” MJ Rowan captures the daily irony and flow of living with AS and fibromyalgia — both of which she has. MJ crafts an irresistible story you almost certainly cannot stop reading mid-paragraph.

The diagnosis of bipolar disorder can be terrifying. Charita Cole Brown pens a consoling letter to the newly diagnosed that there is hope and adventure with bipolar disorder.

Jackie Zimmerman articulates what MS patients need from their neurologists at the time of diagnosis and throughout their treatment, and shares lessons learned.

Patient expert Sabrina Skiles pens a poignant letter to her younger self packed full of insights learned from living with psoriasis.

Mandy writes to her prediagnosis self about living with ulcerative colitis (UC) and what she wishes she had known.

Being the spouse to someone with UC can be challenging, but this woman with UC has a message for you: You’re the real MVP.