Do you know the best defense against Dementia type conditions of the mind is to exercise it? Just like physical exercise is beneficial to combat the worst of the worst that MS brings, simple "exercises of the mind" strengthen and rebuild pathways in the brain naturally. MS has many parts that involve mental well being or lack there of.
To exercise your brain, pick up your favorite newslette and turn to the games page. Exercise your eyes by recognizing the word challenge enclosed in the paper. Every puzzle is solvable. Before you get stuck on a crossword if you chose to do that, check the link below. Your sanity is important. Keep it for a lifetime. Take 5 & do a puzzle that causes you to think! Quit Smoking too.
HowStuffWorks "Top 10 Tips for Solving Crossword Puzzles"
Sunday, April 18, 2010
The road to day on several fronts
This event is the crowning glory of the plan I have for the MS Self Help group if they allow me to continue as Facilitator. It seems like it will continue well into the future, it is proving to be successful for both the BC /YT Division and the chapter. other areas east in Canada are attempting it. It may be a coincidence, but my other contacts in www.MSSupport.ca is based locally to where a similar event may occur in the future.
Anyway local to us, a few years ago a nurse named Marcy Moore came to run the MS Clinic of the former PG Regional Hospital. She had a vision of our MS world and envisioned a support union of the community, the medical team and the MS Society. This union would combine into an education session of the latest therapies
I had a similar idea, starting with Prince George and using the Internet to expand Prince George's support boarders. For this I would need to Network. Being slightly mentally unbalanced I imagined all sorts of future plans, paving roads along the way. Fortunately most of the plans failed. Some of the biggest successes on the path to globalization are based in the realization of failures.
Prince George had a Support Group, a gathering of MS Patients who identified themselves as a distinct sub community within Prince George. At one time it was a
Today's group is the evolution of it's "reboot" due to dwindling membership and interest. I suspected that the fact that we shared the MS name with the Society and wondered about any possible conflicts with us being a Multiple Sclerosis endorsed external Group. They needed to have contact in order for us to continue to exist. I became the Facilitator for the Self Help Support in I think 2004 to fill that need so it would continue.
As far as I could see, the Facilitator has the power to guide the group in whatever direction would benefit the group's survival into the future. No one told me any different, I suppose trusting me not to warp your minds too bad or keeping the threat of dissolution hovering above me from corrupting this world I was forced to join into.
My vision extends internationally however, perhaps Globally if I have time:) & I'll start here. I have repeatedly invited the group to join me as I developed MS contacts internationally and nationally.
Anyway local to us, a few years ago a nurse named Marcy Moore came to run the MS Clinic of the former PG Regional Hospital. She had a vision of our MS world and envisioned a support union of the community, the medical team and the MS Society. This union would combine into an education session of the latest therapies
I had a similar idea, starting with Prince George and using the Internet to expand Prince George's support boarders. For this I would need to Network. Being slightly mentally unbalanced I imagined all sorts of future plans, paving roads along the way. Fortunately most of the plans failed. Some of the biggest successes on the path to globalization are based in the realization of failures.
Prince George had a Support Group, a gathering of MS Patients who identified themselves as a distinct sub community within Prince George. At one time it was a
Today's group is the evolution of it's "reboot" due to dwindling membership and interest. I suspected that the fact that we shared the MS name with the Society and wondered about any possible conflicts with us being a Multiple Sclerosis endorsed external Group. They needed to have contact in order for us to continue to exist. I became the Facilitator for the Self Help Support in I think 2004 to fill that need so it would continue.
As far as I could see, the Facilitator has the power to guide the group in whatever direction would benefit the group's survival into the future. No one told me any different, I suppose trusting me not to warp your minds too bad or keeping the threat of dissolution hovering above me from corrupting this world I was forced to join into.
My vision extends internationally however, perhaps Globally if I have time:) & I'll start here. I have repeatedly invited the group to join me as I developed MS contacts internationally and nationally.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
About Bounce Back | CMHA BC Division
A big part of my journey during the last ten years, my depression was recognized by the MS Clinic just before I started the Avonex. She recommended that I pay a visit to my GP to receive an Antidepressant of some kind prior to my starting Avonex in 2001. Avonex was explained in a post on one of my other blogs, it is MS injectable DMT... The "A" in the "ABCR's"
The Nurse also suggested that I see the Mental Health center attached to the former "Prince George Regional Hospital". I nodded my head and went back to my shell of a life. I did see my GP. Or rather I saw some old, should have been retired years before I walked in his office Doctor. I mentioned I was out of my Blood pressure medication (oh yea- another side effect of Depression combined with ancestry) and what I learned at the clinic about my mind. He looks at me and said "You are not old enough to have high blood pressure". He takes a breath and speaks again. "you don't look like you have MS and I do not see depression, I guess I will fill your BP meds but I refuse to give you any antidepressants".
I looked at him and said Goodbye, picked up my 'script for the meds (he only ordered 1 month supply) and vowed I would survive with out any help from that side of my support or die trying. It would be a while before I would return to my doctor.
I eventually remembered what the nurse had said about Mental Health and the directions to their office. I phoned and enquired. I needed to see the Community Resource office in the rear of the Hospital first, located right next to the Adult Mental Health center. She could see me to be assessed, immediately if not sooner. I knew the lady in the CRO from her previous position somewhere back along the road to that day and we connected on that fact. As soon as I finished that appointment I had an appointment set up with the Mental Health nurse.
After a few sessions with the nurse who went over my personal journey up to the point of our first meeting (which included my suspicions of the aliens causing my MS) I entered a series of Group Therapies. I also checked back with the MS Clinic about my progress, she was getting anxious as she wanted me to start Avonex once I had my depression under control. She wrote some notes as I talked to her as to why I had not started pharmaceutical Antidepressant treatment. She advised me to make and keep another appointment with my GP.
I attended many groups with about 12 people in them. Every day people would describe events in their lives that bothered them. We learned how to recognize and combat the depressive waves of emotion and learned the power of thought control. The most powerful was the "Assertiveness Training" group. Very life changing and helped put me on the path to today.
The video offered below is part of the evolution to this point in my life. The material covered in it is very close to the groups I sat in. I see it as the evolution of Mental health in British Columbia. They had a booth at today's Wellness Day Event and gave an excellent talk on their "Bounce Back" program...
Where the MS Society of Canada cannot recommend or endorse any form of medical therapy, I personally can. If you feel depressed, the steps I took are still there today. Some persons need that. For the rest of us, there is online and a free DVD for BC residents.
I had a unique ride along the road to today and this program helped to pave it for everyone else hopping up that same road. Mental health is evolving along the road, becoming a Highway and now a Superhighway online!
Check out the link below. Remember that it is adapted to a BC / Alberta flavor so it may warp your American minds and those BC Wannabees from the east.. I am sure they have disclaimers on their sites about the risk of mental screw ups and offer qualified advice in such cases to repair such screw ups...
It did not mention anyone else having the delusion of alien Gene manipulation in their delusions sooo perhaps my reality did have a bit of real reality mixed into it. More on that in a post one of these days.
About Bounce Back | CMHA BC Division
The Nurse also suggested that I see the Mental Health center attached to the former "Prince George Regional Hospital". I nodded my head and went back to my shell of a life. I did see my GP. Or rather I saw some old, should have been retired years before I walked in his office Doctor. I mentioned I was out of my Blood pressure medication (oh yea- another side effect of Depression combined with ancestry) and what I learned at the clinic about my mind. He looks at me and said "You are not old enough to have high blood pressure". He takes a breath and speaks again. "you don't look like you have MS and I do not see depression, I guess I will fill your BP meds but I refuse to give you any antidepressants".
I looked at him and said Goodbye, picked up my 'script for the meds (he only ordered 1 month supply) and vowed I would survive with out any help from that side of my support or die trying. It would be a while before I would return to my doctor.
I eventually remembered what the nurse had said about Mental Health and the directions to their office. I phoned and enquired. I needed to see the Community Resource office in the rear of the Hospital first, located right next to the Adult Mental Health center. She could see me to be assessed, immediately if not sooner. I knew the lady in the CRO from her previous position somewhere back along the road to that day and we connected on that fact. As soon as I finished that appointment I had an appointment set up with the Mental Health nurse.
After a few sessions with the nurse who went over my personal journey up to the point of our first meeting (which included my suspicions of the aliens causing my MS) I entered a series of Group Therapies. I also checked back with the MS Clinic about my progress, she was getting anxious as she wanted me to start Avonex once I had my depression under control. She wrote some notes as I talked to her as to why I had not started pharmaceutical Antidepressant treatment. She advised me to make and keep another appointment with my GP.
I attended many groups with about 12 people in them. Every day people would describe events in their lives that bothered them. We learned how to recognize and combat the depressive waves of emotion and learned the power of thought control. The most powerful was the "Assertiveness Training" group. Very life changing and helped put me on the path to today.
The video offered below is part of the evolution to this point in my life. The material covered in it is very close to the groups I sat in. I see it as the evolution of Mental health in British Columbia. They had a booth at today's Wellness Day Event and gave an excellent talk on their "Bounce Back" program...
Where the MS Society of Canada cannot recommend or endorse any form of medical therapy, I personally can. If you feel depressed, the steps I took are still there today. Some persons need that. For the rest of us, there is online and a free DVD for BC residents.
I had a unique ride along the road to today and this program helped to pave it for everyone else hopping up that same road. Mental health is evolving along the road, becoming a Highway and now a Superhighway online!
Check out the link below. Remember that it is adapted to a BC / Alberta flavor so it may warp your American minds and those BC Wannabees from the east.. I am sure they have disclaimers on their sites about the risk of mental screw ups and offer qualified advice in such cases to repair such screw ups...
It did not mention anyone else having the delusion of alien Gene manipulation in their delusions sooo perhaps my reality did have a bit of real reality mixed into it. More on that in a post one of these days.
About Bounce Back | CMHA BC Division
Today
Today is April 17th 2010, 5:10 am Pacific. It is wellness day and I am MCing at the event our MS Support team has worked hard to set up all year. Just 5 months from today we will start the next year's planning for an even more exciting event. What would you like to see in the event next year? How about a person talking about Marijuana therapy? Most of the wellness centers placed around the province have professional medical staff who agree that it is the best thing for their patients. What is your opinion on this?
Is Multiple Sclerosis Fatal? - Video
Film from the UK explaning that MS is not fatal. Live well, MS will be with you for (hopefully, baring accidents and human stupididy) a very long time. Enjoy the show!
Is Multiple Sclerosis Fatal? - Video
Is Multiple Sclerosis Fatal? - Video
Friday, April 16, 2010
Emotions Linger When Memories Fade
My aunt Laurie passed away last winter from Dementia. The last time I saw her just before Christmas 2009 she recognized me and I saw emotion in her eyes... At the time I did not recognize it but understand now that she still cared and wanted out. Death was her escape, she will be there to greet her family and relatives that loved her when we get to the other side of life.
Emotions Linger When Memories Fade
Emotions Linger When Memories Fade
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