multiple sclerosis regaining your identity

Multiple Sclerosis regaining your Identity or identifying what makes you who you are after you are diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis can be difficult, depending on how much Multiple Sclerosis has affected your overall health, how well you can function and on what you are still able to do on a daily basis.

If Multiple Sclerosis has taken a larger toll on your body and removed more of your ability to function, finding something that makes you feel like your life still has purpose or meaning can be so much more difficult at times. When so much of what you did before and enjoyed about life has been taken away from you, because of the Multiple Sclerosis attacks on your body, it can leave you feeling like part of you is missing.

Regaining some purpose in your life can be a huge challenge, since it may leave you feeling like you need to redefine what matters in life to you, but in spite of the challenges this can make for us, we need to do this to keep us from giving up totally from doing much of anything that helps us to start to enjoy life again, after the effects of MS on our lives.

It may take us some time for us to find the strength to be able to face ourselves honestly, but we can find a way some how to make it through this period of time, if we really put our minds and hearts into it. This can take some time to work through the feelings that most likely ill accompany all of this, but that is okay to take the time to reevaluate things if we need to.

How do I understand about what it is like with Multiple Sclerosis regaining your identity to bring value back into out lives again?

But, I know how this can feel, myself, since this is something that I myself most recently went through because of the extreme changes and challenges that Multiple Sclerosis brought into my life. It did take me some time to realize that after the first 5 years after I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, and it started to sink in more that my case of Multiple Sclerosis was a much longer term condition for me than I ever thought it could or would be. l

The first few years, after I was first diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, I just thought that I would find a way to help me to recover from this horrible condition more quickly...as if I would just "find the solution" or something. But that didn't happen. I have found things that have been helping me to gradually function better, but I still struggle with many symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, even though the ones that I struggle with now are so much less severe than what I started with when I was first diagnosed with a very severe case of Multiple Sclerosis.

Rather than feeling sorry for myself all of the time or feel so insecure that I sometimes have felt like I just couldn't make it through all of this (which would be very easy for me to do), some how I have found the strength to get through all of this by thinking that somehow I would do what I could to help others with Multiple Sclerosis to find relief to their Multiple Sclerosis symptoms.

Somehow we are stronger if those of diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis stick together. Somehow we will find the strength to get through all of this and work through the emotions that can either help sink us, like a sinking ship or help us to come out of this as a much stronger person, inside.

It's easier to say this after you go through anything like this than to attempt to discuss any of this while you are going through it, but some how you will be okay in the end. Out of necessity we have times in our lives where we can do a lot of soul searching before we find some way to do more than to just survive it all. Somehow we will find a way to find an internal strength that helps us to find ways to thrive and find ways to function better too.

This can be a difficult topic to discuss at times, and at times this can be something that people appear to be more hesitant to talk about, but it doesn't change the fact that more of our abilities to function that we lose because of Multiple Sclerosis attacking our bodies, the more it can affect how we view ourselves as far as who we think that we are. At times, Multiple Sclerosis can shake us to our very core of our being.

Learning to live again after Multiple Sclerosis has entered our lives is not as simple as relearning how to do things, physically again. This also means, many times that we have to learn how to live life all over again. It isn't going to be the same for everyone that is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, since it depends on how severe your case of Multiple Sclerosis has become and it depends on how each of us reacts emotionally to the changes and challenges that MS brings into our lives.

All of this can change how we view life in every aspect. But in spite of all that Multiple Sclerosis has affected in our lives we need to realize that Multiple Sclerosis can't take away who we are inside unless we let it.

Do you feel like Multiple Sclerosis has taken away so much of the way that you lived your life before that you feel like you don't believe in yourself any more or that you have lost your own self-esteem because the effects of Multiple Sclerosis reducing how much you can do to function?

I don't know about you, but recently it dawned on me, that I lost so much of my own abilities to function independently as my own person, because of the effects of Multiple Sclerosis on my body, that I feel like I lost a huge part of who I am. I feel like I have lost so much of my own identity after I was diagnosed with a severe case of Multiple Sclerosis.

I will use part of my own experiences with Multiple Sclerosis to illustrate my point.

An example of what I am talking, as far as Multiple Sclerosis regaining your identity includes the following:

I used to love math when I was growing up, on top of me having a very good memory while I was growing up and I even took quite a few courses of more advanced math in college. After I was diagnosed with a severe case of Multiple Sclerosis, I had so many many memory problems that there were many things that I just couldn't remember at all. It was as if many of the events in my life of things that I had many good memories about hadn't happened at all. Math was something that I almost totally lost the ability to do.

Even after 12 years, I don't remember any of the math that I took in college. Even doing simple math on some days is much more of a challenge for me. I don't know how else to put this, but it was almost like Multiple Sclerosis had taken away part of my identity.

At first none of this dawned on me as to how sick I really was when I was first diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, but my good friends that I spent a large amount of time with for at least 5 to 7 years building good memories with, before I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis entered my life could see that there was major changes in how well I could function.

My friends, at first, would take me out to eat off and on just to "hang out" with me and they would try to help me remember the good memories by talking about them in detail, but I didn't remember anything about the events that they were describing. My friends meant well and they would just keep talking, in the hopes that it would help me to remember something, but it didn't help and instead of it helping me to remember, I would get upset about the fact that I didn't remember any of what they were talking about.

Fast forward through 12 years of living with Multiple Sclerosis and much of my memories have returned, to some degree, but I still can't remember any of the math that I took in college. I vaguely remember something about taking these courses, but if you ask me to do, even fairly simple math (like algebra or even geometry), I couldn't do it, even now.

It hasn't returned -- part of who I thought that I was before , at least what I identified with before. So I have decided that what I have learned about our memory and our brains is that they are retrainable. It will be very difficult for me to relearn math again, but I had a period of time previously, within the first 2 to 3 years after I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, that I had problems with dyslexia.

My brain scrambled everything at first. I had trouble spelling, I had problems with writing, I had problems putting words in any kind of order for me to be able to speak. I stuttered severely at that point. But I worked through it all by playing computer scrabble with my mother, where I had to learn to spell all over again. I had to learn to unscramble words again so that I could learn to speak again. I had to learn how puts words in order so that I could write again.

If I hadn't worked through all of this before, I wouldn't be able to write at all and make any sense. Yes, learning math all over again is very intimidating to me, but I have to find some way to work through this too.

If I can do this -- you can too! Don't let Multiple Sclerosis and the damage that it can cause take your life away from you. Keep fighting and you will find a way to make it through all of this. I know that I don't have all of the answers to help "fix all of the problems" that Multiple Sclerosis can cause in our lives, but if we work together to help each other find the information that we need to find something that can help each of us, we will find some way to find relief to our Multiple Sclerosis symptoms.

If you would like to discuss any of the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis or you would like to discuss anything else related to your case of Multiple Sclerosis, you can email me at eurekagoforit2@yahoo.com

I will do what can to help provide you with any of the information that I have found on alternative and natural ways that have helped me to find relief to my symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.

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