MS and stress

[jackiesj]

Hello my friends...i pray all is well but as life shows opposition there are some of us digging out. I know you are there...hiding with the screen. I see you all and feel the joy happiness or sadness pain agony. we all share a world with many opposites...which gives us choice and compassion. MS has its life and yet the world continues to move..when stress appears set your sites on what you CAN do not what you CAN'T do. OFTEN i find myself scrapping the chalk board and forget breathing. I am sad,,so the opposite is surely to come in happy...wait for that moment. i miss you all.

[twooldcrows]

thank you for this is truly all of us at any one moment in time ...yes we do have to keep moving and to go on for what WE need to do or won't to do ...thank you for writting this for i know some always worry about what others may be thinking about what we are doing or not doing ...for this is for us to decide and don't let others dictate for us ..

[carolek572 CommunityAmbassador]

Well said, jackiesj 🤗

[kycmary]

Hi Jackiesj Sounds like life is NOT being very good for you at this time. Understatement I am sure I pray that Father God will hold you in His arms & comfort you. May His peace surround you & His light impower you.

[Xvettech]

I’m waiting too

[CatsandCars]

Definitely waiting - having a hard with multiple health problems that are taking their sweet time! 😠 More appointments than I can fit into the schedule. Dealing with treatment resistant depression. Knowing stress and untreated depression drive MS progression...does not help the stress or the depression!

I wish you the best, jackiesj. I will try to look at the appointments completed instead of al the ones ahead! Thanks for the reminder. ❤️

[Cwright170994]

Good morning 👋 I reasoned with my diagnosis by telling myself that, if there was something up there playing God or whatever, they must have quotas to fill. And if they have quotas to fill, what's ruling over them? It has to give people incurable diseases, and so they give them to people who they know are strong enough to live with it. That's what keeps me going, like I'm "throwing a tantrum" just to show whichever being thing that they won't break me (if you get where I'm coming from). I like to make notes about things, such as appointment dates with where I'm at and maybe who I'm seeing. I've got a routine of what medication I take daily and when, just so I know what to tell Drs and nurses when they ask if I'm in a clinical setting. I'm nearly 10 years since being officially diagnosed. I'm keeping myself busy by doing my bit to help make disabled people's voices heard. To help get us get out and about and safely into places that we wouldn't have been able to do beforehand. That's what's keeping me going. Fight the man 💪 be that strong b-word 💪 never lose sight of making a better world for people like us 💪 give tips, tricks, and pointers to what they're able to do to make life that little bit easier.

I'm looking at becoming a "Buddy" with Shift.ms, just so I can officially do that. I wanted to be a nurse. Nearly passed the last exam of my 2nd year before I broke down after getting my clinically definite diagnosis a few months prior. I still want to help people, it's just in a different way than I planned.

I hope, and believe, you can do everything you want to do. Even if it's just baby steps, you'll get there... eventually 🫂