Comments on: Don’t know whether to laugh or cry? https://thenewneo.com/2005/05/09/dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:04:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: PerpetualBeginner https://thenewneo.com/2005/05/09/dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry/#comment-805 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/05/dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry.html#comment-805 Something like 10% of MS patients suffer from pathological lauging and/or weeping. It’s one of the most shattering side-effects of the disease. It can destroy a person’s ability to function normally – imagine the reaction of the rest of the mourners to someone laughing through a funeral (no not a random example).

Many of these patients can be helped with medications that are already on the market (some SSRI anti-depressants for example), which may help to keep the decision to treat or not between the physician and patient.

If you refuse to treat one aspect of a disease because the disease is diffuse – then logically you really couldn’t treat any of the symptoms, only the disease itself. Which in many, many cases would mean you could do nothing, because there isn’t anything yet that treats the main disease pathway.

]]> By: Dymphna https://thenewneo.com/2005/05/09/dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry/#comment-806 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/05/dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry.html#comment-806 OT, a little…

Or perhaps an older sister of sisters. Acc. to Family Constellation Theory (Murray Bowen and Walter Toman {spelling?}), the older/oldest sister of sisters is the toughest of them all. Wicked, mean and evil. Kind of…

Having a sib of the opposite sex is supposed to soften one somewhat.

I like the Constellation ideas anyway.

I’m for any medicine — or any emotional defense, for that matter — which makes coping easier in this vale of tears.

]]> By: meander https://thenewneo.com/2005/05/09/dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry/#comment-807 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/05/dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry.html#comment-807 I am very sympathetic to at least giving the patient the option of using this drug. My father suffered from MS for a number of years and one of the symptoms of the disease for him was unwilled, uncontrollable sobbing. Believe me, it came on at times that he definitely didn’t want it to and he hated it. Sadly, it never occurred to my parents to talk about this phenomenon to we kids and the sobbing episodes were a dismaying occurence to us. It wasn’t until after he had passed on and I was an adult doing some research on MS for a friend who had been recently diagnosed that I came across the information about the uncontrolled crying in MS sufferers. I discussed this new to me fact with my mom and she was very regretful that she hadn’t explained to us as children that my father did not do most of those crying jags on purpose ( I’m sure there was some genuine, totally justifiable dark times of dispair and sadness). Anyway, I’m sure if there was a choice to take a drug to at least eliminate one side effect of the disease, they would have been grateful.

]]> By: Goesh https://thenewneo.com/2005/05/09/dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry/#comment-808 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/05/dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry.html#comment-808 I always want to curse tv commercials – I must have a different variation of that disease.

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