I fully agree with you.

IMMHO Ms. Abdul needs to make an urgent statement about this. RSD is a condition that many serious people are fighting to get awareness for, *struggling* to get awareness for. She has no right to ruin the work of many renowned organisations such as RSDS.org but she almost singlehandedly did and is doing that. Doubts about her condition are increasing all the more. I fear that people will associate her drug addiction problem with RSD, and then where are we?

If she is an RSD patient, then what the heck is her agenda?

OTOH, if a celebrity brought cancer into a bad spotlight because of an addiction problem, people wouldn't associate the cancer, the condition itself, with the addiction problem. They would view them as two separate issues. They would say, "poor thing, the cancer is probably too much". Why won't they be able to do that for RSD?

It is, however, VERY bad that an addict has to bring RSD into the spotlight like this. I would feel deeply ashamed in her place. It's no time to start making excuses for an addiction problem by saying you have a condition called RSD and that you can't help it. If she can't see the kind of damage she is doing by that, then I wonder...