The attitude that I am currently finding difficult to deal with comes from people who think you bring your illness on yourself, no matter what the illness is. That ill health is part of the consequence of 'wrong living' and even wrong thinking ........

Has anyone else come across this kind of attitude? It has suddenly hit me, and my friend who has MS - she is further in her disease progression than me, and is being treated as though she has this awful disease because in some way her view or her thinking is unhealthy. She is one of the kindest and most generous people I know, a very strong person with a cruel disease. I am astounded by this attitude, my friend is losing many of the autonymous day to day things that we take for granted, she's had MS for 25 YEARS, how much wrong thinking would you have to clock up for that amount of suffering!

To add to my original post there is also a fairly big emphasis on 'you can heal yourself of anything, if only you believe that it can happen', thereby adding another aspect of wrong thinking to the pot.

I have a hard time comprehending this particular lack of compassion. I can deal with people who put their head in the sand and tell me how wonderful I look, but this is not something I can cope with, simply because life has taught me otherwise. If everything was simple cause and effect life would be very fair, but it isn't, it is profoundly unfair in so many many ways.. aaaargh, I must stop this rant,

Would love to hear your views on this.......

Lindy