G'day Relapsing Remiyying ms (RRms) family. Last night was great for you. Reading about Stoicism is proving to be so much more than YOU thought. great great great, You are on your way, there will be a few hills to climb up but gentle slopes to travel down. No scary cliffs to face, just gentle downhill slopes. This RRms you can handle it.
In your minds eye (imagination) can YOU paint a picture for yourself? Words have meaning. I could have written something unpleasant but I did not. I can say Trigeminal Neuralgia is the suicide pain and go into its details or I can just say it hurts and I would rather not have it. I am going to tell myself it is JUST pain that I would rather not have, but it is still just pain and I like YOU can get over it. Like waves on a beach, it comes but it does not have to break me. I can use my words, my self talk to minimize it even make a joke of it. I will look for any light at the end of that tunnel. My RRms does not have tone an unending blackness, my RRms and yours can be the last 5 meters (15ft) of a journey that I made but do not remember how, BUT I can see the sunlight ahead of me. It is a gloom but each time I do something good for me it how gets a little brighter. I am not sure that I will ever see midday sun again, afterall we all have an incurable illness BUT I and YOU do not have to be far into the tunnel in blackness and despair.
Choose your words carefully maybe at times YOU will move backwards into the blackness, and other times YOU move forward strongly towards the light.
I picture those television shows about people traveling in tunnels. Why they want to do that is beyond me. But they move through darkness towards light at the other end. they know if they move forward they can get through this like YOU and I. We CAN do this, It does not have to be doom and gloom. Take your time and TELL yourself that YOU can do this. Remind yourself that YOU are the culmination of a very very long list of survivors.. A little incurable illness will NOT break YOU. YOU are built of stronger stuff. Remind yourself often and believe it.
Choose words that make YOU stronger not weaker. Minimize your pain, do not tell yourself fit is unbearable . Make everything something that YOU CAN DO.
Royce 
be well be strong
