I'm with Sabrina and Sugahorse.... it has made me stronger, more insightful, understanding, and compassionate. For this I am appreciative.

This best and worst thing .... all MI impacts our lives to varying degrees even within each diagnosis. I can see the struggles with each one and that each one can be mildly annoying to leading to death, all at the same time depending on the person; it is how each one responds and handles it, if one can get and respond to treatment, and the nature of the illness in how it touches us. There are too many variables and is too individualized even within each diagnosis.

No one diagnosis is better or worse because you cannot be in someone else's shoes to know how you would respond and how things would go for you being faced with what they are faced with. Looking in is not the same as experiencing it. Look how hard it is for many of us to describe what we are going through to others and how many times they have no idea what we're talking about? Pdoc and T's can empathize but even they have no idea, unless they've been through it themselves; yes, they've seen evidence of what's happening to us but even they cannot relate or know. There is no way to know until you've been through it. So how can we judge another diagnosis or is that the grass is always greener on the other side?

To me the best one is not having one.