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i think the most difficult mental challenge for someone with AlS is telling yourself your going to die. Also you arnt going to die with natural causes, your muscles are going to weaken over time. ALS affects speech,swallowing,chewing, and breathing. If you have ALS your expected to die in 2-5 years.
I think the most difficult change for someone is changing the way they live and act. Because the disease messes up ur nerves system on how you move and function in life. So the biggest change for someone is just living they have to chnage it becasue, they can't do the things they use to be able to do. I think its hard for someone to have this disease and live in the world to day.
The most difficult challenge for someone would be geting around by them self alos, they would be looked at by other people would be judging you on what your doing.
I think the most diffucult challenege for me would be that i wouldnt be able to do anything on my own. that someone else would have to take care of me, i would know that i would be dying soon. i wouldnt be able to live knowing that things were not going to get better. being paralyzed would be another difficult challenge. i wouldnt know how i would be able to deal with that either.
knowing that they are goin to die and knowing they are goin to have to need help to do almost everything. when you have this disease you start having muscle weekness in the hands,arms legs or muscles of speech, swallowing or breathing. it would be hard living with ALS because i dont know how you can live knowing you have only a few years,months to live.
I think the most difficult mental challenge for someone having to handle the disease would be them feeling scared. I would probably pray everyday to god hoping that nothing will happen to me. There really isn't anything you could do for this disease except try to get treated. This would make me want to do everything I wanted to do before I died.
I think that the most difficult mental challenge would be that the person knows he's going to die, and can't do anything about it. He has to see himself get worst everyday.
The most difficult mental challenge would be knowing that your going to die. I think so because i think death is something that everyone fears. People might not be scared to be paralyzed or not being able to talk but being dead you cant even have the oppurtunity to see your family grow and get big or if this happens at a young age you will not have the oppurtunity to live life.
In my opinion, the most difficult mental challenge from having the ALS disease is knowing that people will feel bad for you and im personally one of those persons that hate when someone feels bad for me cause i have a certain disability or a certain illness. The hardest task is probably when someone breaks the news to you, i mean, if it was me, i would not even know where i am, what i was doing, i would feel spaced out knowing that i have something like this affecting me mentally and disabling my ability to do something that i would love to do. The most painful part is probably also knowing that if you are a very healthy person, you exercise, you eat great, it can still strike you. Also, the uncomfortability of having someone help you do things like take a shower, go to the bathroom, the privacy that you do not have will really make you feel less comfortable and probably bring your self esteem down, the damage that it does to you mentally affects your surroundings, because the ability that world has not seen from you yet will never be shown and your first thought will most likely be, how will i be remember? How can someone look at me in the face and help me do these things knowing that i can die any day? It is quite a process but that is life and you have to deal with it.
als come from a greek language a mean no or negative myo. also i think the most difficult thing if you have this would be some one has to help you do everything. i would hate that if someone has to help you. also i would be scared to die soon and you dont no when you are goin to die and you could die at any sent.
I think the most diffulcult mental challenge is als is when you know your are going to die and you cant do anythinf for yourself...is me hallaaw the wolf wuuuuuuu!!!
If I was told, That I Had ALS, I'd be Sick. I Would Be Sad.
If i was told i had ALS the most difficult challenge would probably not to move your arms and your legs. like you can't go to the bathroom bt yourself and you might enjoy a sport that you will never be able to play again and I love to run i wouln't be able to run anymore in my life but know that you are going to die. If i had this diease i would break down after a while you won't be able to walk you will talk funny. but to tell the truth i would go on and on with my days until it even hurts to get up. ALS can give you uncontrollable laughing or crying what would you be laughing for and crying do people cry because they have ALS and they know thier life is going to end soon. I don't think i can deal with suffering and by the looks of diseases ALS seems to me like the worst to me.
Not getting to do the things that you used to do like if you used to play sports you cant casue of the stiffness you get when you have it and thinking about when they are goin to die.
if a doctor told me i had als. i think would try to spend all my time with my family and friends and do what i never did i would want to do.
i think the most difficult mental challenge for someone having to handle the ALS disease would be having to adjest to not being able to express your self the way you once were. The person would become frustrated because of their lack of their ablity to speak and do things for themselves.
In my opinion i think the most difficulty mental challenege is the progressive neurogenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord because if the neurions die, people could be paralylyzed in the rest on their life.
the most difficult mental challenge for someone having to handle the disease is to not be able to do anything by themselves, they lose the independent and now he need help to do everything like go to the bathroom, get dress, or even eat. This is so sad because the person that you see energetic, happy or independent now he isn’t like that.
The most mental challenge a person might have is insecurity because they have to have people help them wipe themself after they use the toilet and also have to have assistence with getting dressed and that really lowers there self-esteem because at one time they were able to do all those things by themselfs.
I feel that the most difficult thing to deal with ALS is knowing that you wont be able to be independent anymore. If i were in that position the first thing that would come to my mind is how will i live? Who would want to take care of me? I can only imagine the frustration of not being able to do simple things on your own. Such as brushing your teeth, drinking water, and even trying to feed yourself. Another mental way that ALS will affect you is that you will never have privacy. I would lose my mind if someone had to dress me evereyday or take me to the bathroom or shower me. It is a real unfortunate thing if someone had to live with ALS but from what i know right now is that Morrie is making the best of his life by educating his students about life.
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