An affirming, clinically grounded guide for people living with autoimmune disease offering validation, insight, and practical tools to reclaim identity, dignity, and personal agency.
Autoimmune disease is often called an invisible illness—yet the emotional, psychological, and relational toll it takes can be profound, isolating, and lifelong.
In Autoimmune Disease & Your Mental Health, licensed clinical psychologist Nicoletta Skoufalos, PhD brings together clinical expertise, research‑based insight, and lived experience to illuminate the realities that so often go unseen. With warmth and clarity, she explores the grief, trauma, shame, identity disruption, medical invalidation, and chronic uncertainty that frequently accompany life with autoimmune disease—experiences many patients are rarely taught to name or address.
This book helps readers learn how to:
- Understand the emotional and psychological impact of living with an unpredictable, invisible illness
- Process grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and ongoing loss
- Navigate relationships, disclosure, and difficult conversations with confidence
- Communicate effectively with loved ones, employers, and healthcare providers
- Advocate for medical care without shame, minimization, or self‑doubt
- Cultivate meaning, agency, and empowerment while living with chronic illness
Written for those with autoimmune disease, their loved ones, and clinicians, Autoimmune Disease & Your Mental Health makes the invisible visible and offers a compassionate path toward healing, self‑advocacy, and living fully alongside chronic illness.
