This past August I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. It's been hard on me especially my self esteem. I'm the only one in my family that has this and I'm feeling really down about myself and the people around me don't understand it. I'm not trying to throw and pity party, and I don't want people to feel sorry for me. But it would be nice if I had some support. The comments of "get over it, all you want is people to feel sorry for you, you're not even sick, you're fine" are starting to get to me, kicking me when I'm down. How do you deal with this? How do you deal with close family members that don't understand? How do you make yourself feel better?