“Reading Autoimmune Disease and Your Mental Health feels like sitting across from a friend who gets you and is saying, ‘I know it’s so much. I see you, and I’m here for you.’ I cannot recommend this book enough.” —Samantha Gambino, PsyD
“Dr. Skoufalos’ candid reflections on her own journey, along with her clinical insights, enliven Autoimmune Disease and Your Mental Health, and provide meaningful guidance for others who have had to cope with the miseries, indignities, injustices and bigotries that their invisible illnesses have caused.” —Barbra Zuck Locker, PhD, ABPP
“Autoimmune Disease and Your Mental Health is a true gift for anyone living with chronic invisible illness. Dr. Skoufalos artfully validates patients’ experiences by sharing her own journey with autoimmune disease, providing important scientific data that allows people to feel seen, and giving such remarkable tools to not only help anyone with invisible illness cope with their changing reality, but to also make meaning of these changes.” —Cristina Dorazio, PhD, founder of Unity Psychological Consulting
“Dr. Skoufalos provides practical tools that restore a sense of agency, as well as a grounded hope that a life with chronic illness can be lived with dignity, meaning, and voice.” —Liat Tsuman, PhD, psychologist and psychoanalyst
“Autoimmune Disease & Your Mental Health is essential reading for those who have been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Dr. Skoufalos offers readers new ways of understanding their experience, transforming what may feel like an ending into the possibility of a different, yet deeply meaningful, way of living.” —Karen Starr, PsyD, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst
“Dr. Skoufalos expertly and sensitively guides readers through passages and reflective exercises that address the realities of living with invisible illness, including the emotional and physical toll it can take and the importance of grieving one’s life and sense of self prior to one’s diagnosis.” —Vicky Mesrie, PsyD
