Re: I need urgent help. I am considering suicide.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:56 pm
My whole business started 4 years ago at age 24-25.
It's terrifying. Once the snow globe housing the blissful ignorance of your mortality is smashed, you can't undo it. It's out. We deal with it.
Get off the Internet. Just stop it. It's the worst thing you can do. If you're looking for potential bad news, you won't be able to click around fast enough. And if you are looking for good news regarding MS, unfortunately, you likely aren't going to find any. But it's best to put it away for a while, let yourself absorb, and then figure out how to move forward. The dizzying heights of desperate panic probably isn't the best time to make important life decisions.
When you've calmed down a bit, look into the possibilities with a more discerning eye. Could it be something else? Do you have a firm MS diagnosis? If you do, what possibilities have you tried for treatment? There are some drug options. This site has a bounty of information regarding vitamins, dietary changes, exercise, and other alternative/supplementary options. Make some changes, assess the progress, and adjust. Maybe you'll find some improvements, maybe you won't. And maybe you'll learn something about your ability to forge ahead in the process.
And take some time to do something you love or something you always wanted to do. There will be enough time to deal with problems. This isn't even an "MS thing", or a "disease thing", but just as a human. Your time might be short, your time might be long, but no ones time is infinite. You only get one spin on the Earth ride... don't let the gravity of a moment's thoughts prevent you from making it a good one.
It's terrifying. Once the snow globe housing the blissful ignorance of your mortality is smashed, you can't undo it. It's out. We deal with it.
Get off the Internet. Just stop it. It's the worst thing you can do. If you're looking for potential bad news, you won't be able to click around fast enough. And if you are looking for good news regarding MS, unfortunately, you likely aren't going to find any. But it's best to put it away for a while, let yourself absorb, and then figure out how to move forward. The dizzying heights of desperate panic probably isn't the best time to make important life decisions.
When you've calmed down a bit, look into the possibilities with a more discerning eye. Could it be something else? Do you have a firm MS diagnosis? If you do, what possibilities have you tried for treatment? There are some drug options. This site has a bounty of information regarding vitamins, dietary changes, exercise, and other alternative/supplementary options. Make some changes, assess the progress, and adjust. Maybe you'll find some improvements, maybe you won't. And maybe you'll learn something about your ability to forge ahead in the process.
And take some time to do something you love or something you always wanted to do. There will be enough time to deal with problems. This isn't even an "MS thing", or a "disease thing", but just as a human. Your time might be short, your time might be long, but no ones time is infinite. You only get one spin on the Earth ride... don't let the gravity of a moment's thoughts prevent you from making it a good one.