When the mental snowball effect happens greasing the path for your symptoms take over and you either have no place to ride out the storm, or some responsibility to stay where you are (like work), what do YOU do to cope? Anyone have any tricks? Pretend there's an earthquake than only you can feel? So far, all I do is hold on, totally lose mental focus, have hot flashes and wish I was dead. I know it's possible to forge on, as I've seen many of you do. May be it just comes with time, it just seems the disease matches me step for step with my coping to it's progression.

Thank you all so much for being there. I'm not much a contributor to the site but I sure appreciate the support I get from here.

Robert