Advocating for yourself and leaning on your support system can increase your chances of getting a proper diagnosis. Chronic autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels) can be difficult to diagnose and are often wrongly identified as psychiatric or psychosomatic...

The immediacy of AI chatbots makes them an attractive alternative to human-to-human therapy, but while they aren't infallible. Artificial intelligence used as a therapeutic tool dates back to the 1960s when gave scripted responses to users who described their emotional states. However while novel, it had no...