Living with a chronic illness can affect multiple aspects of a patient's life, not just due to physical symptoms, but also because of the impact of the disease on mental health, sleep, work, relationships, and daily activities. Therefore, Dr. Hatem Eleishi's Rheumatology Center offers group therapy and psychological support sessions supervised by a specialist, aiming to help patients cope better with the psychological and life challenges associated with the illness. The sessions are not primarily lectures or health education sessions, but rely on interaction between participants, discussing the challenges they face, benefiting from shared experiences, and learning better ways to deal with the illness and its impact on life.
There are separate groups for fibromyalgia patients and patients with inflammatory arthritis, so that the topics of the sessions and discussions are more relevant to the nature of the problems each patient faces.