Why I Write About MS

Nothing is worse than to bear a medical condition and being told, "you think you have it bad? Listen to this..." Being dismissed in that manner makes you less in your own eyes, when the need to talk is never more urgent, a person is made to stand mute and sad.

Here then, and hopefully, to a personal friend or two who get it, is a chance to talk and learn without being ranked and put in a category. To be open about fears, to see your writing give voice to what people feel inside. To hear another, able to express so well in words these feelings which, though they come from you, are not yours alone.

Just cannot be said any better. This is your place.

you are so right that community helps, and it is human nature to need to share and to feel that one is not alone in things, especially when facing MS, or any other tough illness.  So... you help very much and, as you say,  in a way a doctor, or researcher can not.  Let us hope someday they eliminate MS.  I suspect no one will ever eliminate the need for help from others in times of trouble.  Let us hope not.

I just got so tired of reading and writing and thinking about MS that I stopped blogging for a while.  I need an MS-free zone for a while.

Now I believe that I'm falling back into depression and I don't think I can control it myself right now so need to see a doctor.  I also have "Seasonal Affective Disorder" which could be a big factor.  That could also have caused me to stop writing.