Living with Ulcerative Colitis: My Struggle with a Chronic Illness

does anyone else feel...robbed? this disease attacked me at age 17 and changed my life forever. i used to be healthy and strong and full of hope. uc took all of that away from me. i have to work a job where i can be close to the toilet, and have to have decent health care and pto. dating as a young woman with uc is absolute hell. its an embarrassing disease and i only tell people closest to me. it makes me weak and feel gross and ugly. i cant just go out and drink and have fun bc it would destroy my gi tract. i wander around sick and exhausted all the time. i have so many comorbidities that just wreck my day to day. its so rare i ever have a day where i feel truly fine. no one else around me really gets it. i know people with ibs and seasonal affective disorder, and they try to relate, but my life with uc and mdd is absolute hell most of the time. i guess i just feel very alone, and figure someone on here has to relate. im just so tired.