This posting may shock some of you that have got to know me for my funny postings on the message board. I have never wished to post something that wasn’t positive, or inspiring to those of you who suffer DEPRESSION as I, but I have been severely trouble by a reply on "I GOTTA SURVIVE EFEXOR WITHDRAWAL". I must state firstly and clearly, I am not upset or angry at this poster. She is a wonderful lady who has been a wonderful support to me. My anger is from her misunderstanding of a very cruel and debilitating illness FIBROMYALGIA that she ONLY misunderstands, from comments she has read in the newspapers about the illness.
THE MEDIA ARE BLOODY IDIOTS……………………….
FIBROMYALGIA is one of the cruelest illnesses currently known. FIBROMYALGIA is a physical illness. It is an illness of the Central Nervous System in the same category as PARKINSON’S DISEASE. Yet it is looked upon as THE DROPOUTS OR BLUDGERS DISEASE and treated with scepticism and scorn by the media.
The pain associated with FIBROMYALGIA is excruciating and PHYSICAL not PSYCHOLOGICAL. However sufferers of FIBROMYALGIA often suffer very SEVERE DEPRESSION. WHY? Because people do not understand this horrific illness. FIBROMYALIGIA is, like I said, an illness of the Central Nervous System. It is caused because the neuro-transmitters that send messages from the brain to the body have been damaged. The damage causes the senses to pain, touch, smell, etc etc to distort and echo. What is normal pain to a normal person is quadrupled for a FIBROMYALGIA sufferer. It is like your body is trapped constantly in a vice and the more you struggle to free yourself the greater the pain. It is horrendous, but nobody sees that pain, because there is no physical sign outside your body to indicate how excruciating the pain is.
IF YOU SHOW THIS PAIN, PEOPLE ACCUSE YOU OF BEING A BLOODY BLUDGER OR WHINGER. They CANNOT SEE THAT PAIN……….As far as they are concerned you have two arms, two legs so what the BLOODY HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU. The same way people with DEPRESSION are treated. WITH UTTER CRUELTY.
As I said also, FIBROMYALGIA sufferers often suffer SEVERE CLINICAL DEPRESSION. There is no cure for FIBROMYALGIA. It is not FATAL, BUT many sufferers often PRAY IT WAS. At least then the torture and cruelty of their illness would be over. Unfortunately many take this option, simply because so many MISUNDERSTAND their illness and are SO CRUEL to them. AND ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THE MEDIA ARE BLOODY IDIOTS WHEN IT COMES TO THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS ILLNESS....
PEOPLE DO NOT LAUGH OR SCORN SUFFERERS OF PARKINSON’S or RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS yet they humiliate and treat, with the most horrific of scorn, sufferers of FIBROMYALGIA.
HOW BLOODY CRUEL CAN THE WORLD BE……………………….
If you know someone who sufferers FIBROMYALGIA let them know you love them and appreciate them. DON’T give them sympathy, THEY DON’T WANT THAT. JUST LET THEM KNOW that you love them, and you appreciate the pain and the cruelty that they suffer EVERY DAY OF THEIR LIVES.
OFTEN THEY ONLY ENDURE AND SUFFER THAT PAIN AND CRUELTY, because they know ending their pain would cause OTHERS PAIN.
I SPEAK FROM EXPERIENCE…………..I SUFFER SEVERE FIBROMYALGIA…………..AND SEVERE CLINICAL DEPRESSION………………
My postings I CRIED TILL I LAUGHED have been my way of HELPING ME COPE WITH MY PAIN. If I can bring happiness or laughter to just one person in the world, just once a day. THEN MY DECISION TO KEEP FIGHTING THIS ILLNESS AND NOT GIVE IN TO THE PAIN has made my effort WORTHWHILE.
I HOPE I HAVE NOT UPSET ANYONE BY POSTING THIS MESSAGE. IT WAS SOMETHING I HAD TO DO. GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR KINDNESS AND HELP WITH MY EFEXOR PROBLEM. YOU HAVE ALL BEEN
CHRIS
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CJL
SEVERE DEPRESSION & FIBROMYALGIA HOW CRUEL CAN THE WORLD BE 
