Autoimmunity, then, is awash in the collisions and illogic of modern Western culture. At its heart is a conflict—but it is, I contend, a sociopolitical one, not a personal one. The irony is that even as the people I interviewed recognized the sociopolitical dimensions of their condition, they had also internalized the idea, as I had, that something about them was the problem, and that it rested on them alone to fix the inauthenticity that made them stressed-out and unhappy.
