kalamata olive symbolizing the start of chronic illness identity loss

When Chronic Illness Took My Body, It Took My Identity Too

Living with a chronic illness doesn’t just change your health. It rewrites who you are. For me, psoriatic arthritis didn’t just mean pain. It meant losing the identity I’d built since I was a kid: athlete, competitor, future NHL player. This is my story of chronic illness and identity loss and how I started rebuilding…