That's a pretty simplistic judgment.

Wanting a dx so that it's possible to move on (and hopefully forward) with a firm reality as a starting point is not the same thing as wanting to have a disease, in this case MS. I was dxed in 1991 and yes, you bet I wanted the dx. Did I want to have MS? Please, give me a break. But I did want to know what was wrong with me -- and I knew something was terribly wrong -- so I could go on from there.

Very few people actually want to be sick. Assuming that they do because they're searching for answers is a terrible indictment of their sanity. Yeah, sure, I get tired of people detailing every single little thing that's happening to them. But when I look back at the prodromal stage of my own MS, both before and after dx, I realize I did the same.

Chris