Since I live with someone with MS I'd like to bring up the issue of personality.

Louise Hay, in her little book "Heal Your Body" connects MS with: Mental hardness, hard-heartedness, iron will, inflexibility and fear. With the possible exception of hard-heartedness, which I would replace with anger, this describes my husband perfectly. He has a tremendous need to control his environment.

I know this is only a sample of one but most of the others I know with this disease can be described in this way. Though admittedly, my husband is the most extreme. The reason I'm thinking about personality is that with my husband's cognitive problems becoming more clear it is beginning to seem that the MS is merely an exaggeration of who he always was, pre-MS and from what I hear, even as a child.

Just some thoughts,
Contenta