Christina Applegate über das Leben mit Multipler Sklerose: „Ich werde nicht lügen und sagen, dass das alles ein Segen ist“

Damn. I have a friend that was just diagnosed with ms and reading this helps me understand a little better.

Her most troublesome symptoms are very, very similar to my own MS symptoms.

There’s a real cultural tendency to frame any chronic, degenerative or life threatening illness as some sort of ‚meaning journey‘, in which your suffering facilitates personal growth and unique insights that ultimately enrich your life or you as a person but, while it’s true they do force new perspectives and make you reassess your priorities and your values, they’re mainly just really, really shit, so shit, in fact, that no silver lining could possibly compensate for how much they take from you and how much you just want things to go back to how they were before. I think the ‚meaning journey‘ framing helps people pretend that even these awful things have some sort of purpose or coherence or logic because the idea that everyone everywhere exists with the perpetual threat of utterly random, senseless misfortune hanging over them is profoundly unsettling and upends the ordered, managed world we’ve convinced ourselves we inhabit. It’s refreshing to see someone calling it what it is from such a public platform.

I’m so confused that in the excerpt of this book she implies that she wonders if anyone will ever love her. I noticed in her podcast she talks about being alone in her room. I thought she was married?