Arthritis: Here's your welcome party

I still don’t get you. But you are here so, welcome! I was hoping you were just a reactive reaction but apparently I have a cozy body in which you decided to make a home, so there you go. You have met fibromyalgia , dermatitis, and the landlords: Anxiety and depression . And I still don’t get you but you somehow work with them right? Like anxiety overcomes and you just decide to activate my joints and swell them up and that. I still don’t get you because eventhough I’m diagnosed, I refuse to go to a doctor. Don’t get me wrong, you matter and I should get help. But hey, I’ve been to every kind of doctor in my last 5 years, I’ve gone through every single test, I’ve taken so many pills, and I’ve heard so many times the phrase “But you are so young to have _______ (fibro, anxiety, asthma, depression, dermatitis)” while the doctor looks at me with some pitty, cartoon-ish eyes. And I just smile because what else can I say? Yes? Thank you? I know? Shut up? So I just smile. When we first ...