My name is Joel and I’m from Norwich, in the UK. For 30 years, I have lived with Psoriatic-associated Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, psoriasis and associated mental health comorbidities.

I'm sharing my story because growing up with arthritis, I never saw or heard from anyone whom I could relate to. The posters on the waiting room walls of people with arthritis didn't look like me, and my psoriasis was never considered a priority, despite how it made me feel. Nobody asked what mattered to me. Nobody asked how I felt.