Do you have depression/anxiety as well as autoimmune illness?

When we each find our "Michael" perhaps our boat will reach the shore of being well enough to say so. (When all else fails, reach for something corny to lighten the load.)

You got it @flamingal ! Maybe we have "Michael" inside ourselves all along~! Corny is good! 💞

We have to keep "rocking" our own boats to keep moving - can be exhausting, but every journey does have a destiny. (back to last century for all the appropriate corn, and real music! the oldies can soothe the soul - glad I am a member).

Hi! Have you ever taken a med called Lamotrigine (Lamictal)? I take Lamotrigine and have for seven years. It's the best and most helpful med I have taken! It has helped my moods and depression a great deal! I was diagnosed this year with an extremely rare disease. Less than 30 people in the country have this! I became depressed at that time although my parents had passed away last year which turned my life upside down!

Sorry to hear about your parents! I will discuss the med at my next dr. appointment! Thanks, Pat

I have always expected and hoped not to live past 80. Now that I am 78 almost 79 and suffering with CIDP I felt that death would be a welcome relief. Unfortunately, I have a lot of things I am obliged to take care of and I am impatient for death to come but I want to be in control of it. I hope to go to Switzerland for assisted death but with my mobility issues, pain, and fatigue I don't know if I can physically do it.

I just want everything to be over, cleanly and without a lot of drama or effort on my part. Seems like fate is not going to allow that. My husband has relocated to another state for sorely needed treatment for his migraines (which I am supportive of) and I am left with a house to put up for sale while I can barely walk and have difficulty even being awake. I have a copy of the Peaceful Pill handbook that is published by the Exit group. It tells all about suicide and how to do it and what to use (Nembutal is the drug of choice). I don't know how I would get access to this drug so I have to consider other less civilized methods that I doubt I can carry out.

I am 78, in ill health, no family. Why can't our government (and our society) accept that if assisted death is good enough for our pets why shouldn't it be available to humans who are suffering and in pain with no hope of relief? Please vote when it comes up on your ballot to pass laws allowing people who are of sound mind but suffering determine when and how they die. Must I stop eating and drinking and lie in my bed until I die. I am already having difficulty walking, moving, sleeping (except when I don't want to sleep. This is not a good life. Not what I want. I don't try to control other people's wishes for themselves; why can't I be allowed a dignified and peaceful death?