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It’s Not Just Dry Skin: How Psoriasis Impacts Young Women’s Professional Lives
Meet two women who share the way their skin condition affected their career paths. Plus, tips for juggling a chronic health condition and a busy work schedule.
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For Nitika Chopra, 40, psoriasis will always be the thing that impacted her life most. Diagnosed with the chronic skin condition at age 10, Chopra spent many years with about 98 percent of her body covered with scaly red patches.
“When I was looking for jobs psoriasis made it very hard to put myself out there,” says Chopra, who lives in New York City and is a content creator and founder of
Why This Woman Created a Community for People With Chronic Illnesses Raven Ishak
Sundays are a day to recharge and reset by hanging with friends, turning off your phone, bathing for hours on end, or doing whatever else works for you. In this column (in conjunction with our
means to them, from tending to their mental and physical health to connecting with their community to indulging in personal joys. We want to know why Sundays are important and how people enjoy them, from morning to night.
Nitika Chopra, the Chief Executive Officer of Chronicon, a community platform for people with chronic illnesses, has been working in the wellness industry for over 11 years. Her career lifted off when she began an online magazine focusing on self-love, beauty, and wellness, but it wasn t until around 2018 when she realized she wanted to shift directions to focus on helping people with chronic illnesses and disabilities like herself; Chopra was diagnosed with psoriasis at 1