Finding Life-Changing Support Through Patient Events

By Jackie Stebbins, Esq

It seems unfathomable that a person could start the day with a 10-million-dollar professional career ahead of her but have it erased by the day’s end. It’s scary to believe that you can be diagnosed with a life-changing illness that you’ve never even heard of. It’s heartbreaking to learn that your own immune system can deviously attack your brain until you’re incapacitated and unable to participate in your own life as a 34-year-old lawyer, wife, and mother of two.

Click Finding Life-Changing Support Through Patient Events on Psychology Today to find out how peer-to-peer events helped Jackie cope with a diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis and the challenges that came with it.