another way to help with some of the depression is to just get into the social threads and write it all out. thats what i did a few weeks ago and as small a gesture as it was being able to spill that whole mess did help quite a bit. i guess i skipped the denial part and went straight into anger and didnt want to throw that all at my wife. i wasnt even expecting that anyone would read what i had written but just getting it out, telling someone made a difference. i still have that big blue binder my neurologist gave me full of stuff for the copaxone. i remember thinking if they spent less money on the big blue binders and other marketing junk how much less expensive the drugs could be. once i found out how much the copaxone was one of the first things i did was look up alternative treatments for MS. theres one you drs probably wont be telling you much about. theres a few of us here who use it.....LDN. low dose naltrexone. some of use use it alone and others use it along side the copaxone. its sometimes controvertial, because its not fda indicated for MS. plus its already available as a generic so theres not much money left to be made from it. so it probably wont be getting a whole lot of clinical study for its uses in auto immune issues. you can catch more info about it at www.ldninfo.org
its done some good things for me and a few others around here.