Guest post published by Scope

Scope publish guest post by JoelvsArthritis

Scope, the leading disability equality charity in the UK, has published a post I guest-wrote for them earlier this year.

To read the article, which is about the strain chronic illness places on your mental health, go here: Chronic Illness & Mental Health: An Inevitable Combination

It’s an absolute honour to write for such a well known charity and something I’ll be doing again for them later in the year.

In this piece, I write about how parenthood helped me realise that when my disease flared, my mental health suffered and the battle to change my mindset so that I saw asking for help as a strength rather than a weakness.

I plan to expand on this later in the year with a longread piece on this subject published on this website. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this sampler.

About the Author

Joel Nelson

Arthritis blogger, freelance writer and advocate who has had psoriatic-associated Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis from childhood.

Raising awareness and sharing his experiences to help others, Joel specialises in parenting, pain and the mental health impact of living with chronic illness and writes for several leading charities and organisations including Scope, Versus Arthritis and Health Union.

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