If you’d asked me a year ago if I’d ever consider joining a support group, I would have thought you were crazy. All I could imagine was sitting in a circle with other sad people, eating stale cookies and drinking some sort of bland tea. I had seen the movies, and I’ll admit, I was completely turned off to the idea.

However, being diagnosed with a chronic illness was super isolating, and shortly after I got sick, I found myself desperately wanting to connect with other people like me. And, after a little bit of research, I found the Dysautonomia Support Group on Facebook, and I couldn’t be happier.