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This was my message to my wife today. You're doing fine.
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Any advice is welcomed #BorderlinePersonalityDisorderBPD
How do you help someone suicidal ?
I know someone who is clearly going through PTSD, BPD split, and who has been very open about how depressed and suicidal they have been feeling.
They don’t want to go to a hospital, nor call their mom (because their mom suffers from fibromyalgia and doesn’t want to effect her) even though this person’s mom is on their safety plan.
I this case
I believe I am a trigger for them
Not me me but the idea of events that happed that I was there for
I hope that makes sense
I have reached out to one of their best friends to see if she could come be there for this person
I’m not fully concerned of this person’s safety because I am with them now
But and definitely concerned if the suicidal feelings get bigger for them
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MS is a disease of uncertainty — and that all starts during diagnosis.
But diagnosis times are generally decreasing and treatments getting more effective.
#multiplesclerosis #MightyTogether #ChronicIllness #autoimmune #newlydiagnosed #Disability #Caregiving
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We're unlocking some of the mysteries behind MS.
Here's a quick overview video from the MS Society showing some of the questions they're uncovering: Who gets affected by it? Plus ways to manage life with #MultipleSclerosis: probiotics/gut biome, diet, & more.
#multiplesclerosis #MightyTogether #ChronicIllness #autoimmune #newlydiagnosed #Disability #Caregiving
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MS Gym - Putting some Spring back in your step
This website has been helpful to me for understanding and building back balance and core strength. The guy is either a trainer or therapist who explains physical issues that come up a lot in MS. Then he shows exercises to help those areas, many very simple to do. (Like doing them under a blanket! Which sounds goofy, but those of us with MS are nodding right now at what a good idea it is.)
Sometimes my wife and I watch together. One thing that completely convinced us he knows his stuff was when he did a certain walk to demonstrate one of his points - and she & I looked at one another in disbelief: It was exactly how I used to get around with my cane!
Here's the YouTube channel with a lot of free vids. I'm not a subscriber:
#multiplesclerosis #Exercise #newlydiagnosed #MightyTogether #ChronicIllness #Disabilities #Caregiving #Disability #Support
The MS Gym
The purpose and goal of this site is to educate the Multiple Sclerosis Community how to exercise safely, correctly, and effectively in order to manage your MS symptoms, teach your brain new ways to move around your damaged nerves, and to slow the progression of MS or rebuild after MS progression has been stopped.
YOU can learn how to exercise in a way that re-trains your brain to use alternative neurological pathways to work around the MS damage in your body. You CAN restore your strength, balance, coordination, and mobility. You CAN be free.
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Approximately 50% of MS patients will experience some optic neuritis.
Excellent page on info and symptom management — www.nationalmssociety.org/for-professionals/for-healthcare-p...
#MultipleSclerosis #OpticNeuritis #MightyTogether #ChronicIllness #autoimmune #newlydiagnosed #Disability #Caregiving
Empowering people affected by MS to live their best lives
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society exists because there are people with MS. Our vision is a world free of MS.
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I really wish I didn't have to get out of bed sometimes, but I have another whocounts on me every day. Thank God for that, or I might not even be here. #Caregiving #Depression #Dementia #AlzheimersDisease
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This is how it was my $1000/mo MS drug too (which also looked exactly like water, just sayin').
#MultipleSclerosis #MightyTogether #ChronicIllness #autoimmune #newlydiagnosed #Disability #Caregiving
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I'm new here!
Hi, my name is bubblegum_drum91. I'm here because
#MightyTogether #Migraine #PTSD #ADHD #DissociativeIdentityDisorder #dissociativeamnesia #Caregiving #ChronicIllness #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #Anxiety
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Restore funding to our service members and vets with MS. "We owe those who serve more than just words; we owe action.”
Folks in the military get MS at higher rates than the rest of the public. The Multiple Sclerosis Research Program (MSRP) is the only federal funding for MS research and provides help to this military population — supporting the 70,000 US vets with MS.
The proposed funding in the Congressional Resolution cuts back the MSRP. Call your congressman through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to restore funding.
Or join the MS Activist Network and make a difference on a number of MS-related issues. www.nationalmssociety.org/how-you-can-help/get-involved/advo...
The photo is of my great friend and person with MS, Dave Perez, lookin' sharp in 1986.
#multiplesclerosis #MightyTogether #ChronicIllness #autoimmune #newlydiagnosed #Disability #Caregiving
Empowering people affected by MS to live their best lives
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society exists because there are people with MS. Our vision is a world free of MS.
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