What stands between you and happiness?

What, pray tell,.is happiness? There isn’t any sort of measure that is accepted universally as “happiness”.

I’m pretty happy with my life right now. Could I be happier? Sure. Could I be less happy? Of course. But what yardstick are we talking about?

@elbanditoroso-I know how I feel and do not need a scale or comparison chart to measure against anyone’s idea of what it takes to be happy.
I am usually very aware of how I am feeling at any particular moment in time and don’t need help figuring that out.
That being said, I am happy and I know it <<CLAPS HANDS>> ;)

Myself.

What @raum said.

Personally, in my everyday life I am very happy, and I have everything I ever wanted.

However, in global terms, I am sad about the suffering of others. I have done my best to instill a sense of responsibility in my family.

@YARNLADY- “However, in global terms, I am sad about the suffering of others.” I hear you.

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@Patty Melt-That is interesting. I have heard of the use of Botox for spasticity as well as heat therapy,but when he said certain types of PT can aggravate it I was surprised.
I hope you can get the proper help if you have this condition.

Money.

@lucillex3, my doctor is doing what she can, but the VA medical system doesn’t work well were conditions. They don’t like to cover the cost of transporting people to specialists, especially if there are none near.
The neurologists here told my doctor flat out they don’t have the training for it. Not being a specialist herself, she is limited on what she can prescribe. I have painful spasms going down my back, trunk, and legs as I type this. Today has been pretty rough. It seems likey body has a conspiracy theory about my meds today.
There are times when it affects my lungs, and at any time it could give my heart a squeeze. It is a fickle condition, changing all the time. The attacks can just happen at any time, or triggers can bring it on. The triggers can be a sound, being startled, a touch. We fall down a lot. Muscle groups can go hard, inflexible like beef jerky, and might stay that way for hours.
It is an exhausting condition. Five minutes of the jerks and pulls can be equal to circling a block at a dead run.
The hardest part is knowing I will probably never get better. To see improvement or cure, there would have to be some medical breakthrough.

My doctor has been better than most. At first she told me it was some made up internet thing to sell pharma. I showed her one of the videos. She has been researching information on her own since then. I am grateful she took me seriously.
I wish I could go to Bethesda and see that doctor in the video.

@Patty_Melt – I don’t even see a neurologist anymore. I have MS and manage it through diet, exercise,meditation. I do alright without the drugs for it.
One thing that I have noticed is anti-inflammatory diets can really help. I started one as an experiment and so far so good. It has not “cured” me but I am doing alright in spite of a few issues I am working on.
My husband is a different story. Ever since I have known him,(about 25 years) he has had pain (longer than the 25 I have known him) in both shoulders from football injuries.
He decided to follow this way of eating & within a few weeks his pain had greatly diminished.
He is still is doing great 7 months later.
I do not know if it would help you or not but it can’t hurt to try.