Do you suffer from comparison-itis

Comparison is one of the greatest diseases in this world and we are taught to do it from birth. From birth our parents start comparing us with other children. Simultaneously, our teachers and coaches compare us with other children.

This is the greatest disease because everybody is born unique, and comparison is simply not possible. Just as we are all unique and cannot be compared, it is the same with illnesses. There is NO illness worse than another. ALL illness is terrible.

When a person compares someone who has multiple sclerosis with someone that has another illness… they are speaking from a lack of understanding and through filtered lenses. No one can know what someone is experiencing unless they crawled into that person’s body to feel what they feel, and experience what they experience.

One of the worst experiences is when you share your multiple sclerosis journey with someone and they proceed to tell you how their approach to MS or some other ailment is the only way you should be living? That you need to adjust your diet and get rid of meat, diet soda, and gluten. That because you go to a doctor and take meds, you are doing it all wrong? That you wouldn’t have the struggle you are having if you would just do things their way? That if you only ________ (fill in the blank) you would feel better?

It can get extremely frustrating when someone assumes they know your body and your journey better than you do. Comparing illnesses or even progressions of the same illness between two different people never works. When someone does the comparing like that, they have fallen victim to the greatest disease in the world… comparison-itis! But take heart, there is a cure… an adjustment of the attitude works 100% of the time.

Stop comparing, stop complaining… and start loving, caring, and nurturing one another.