Need some motivation!

Sometimes this disease just gets the best of me.  I know they say prednisone can cause mood swings but man sometimes I just get so depressed about the realities of this thing.  What I need are some people to chime in with positive stories of being in remission for a long time - come on, there has to be some out there!!  I love this forum because you get answers from some people who have really been through it all and survived, but I need to know that there are some people out there that just have it easy.

My GI doctor told me once that there's this third/third/third rule: a third of the population gets worse, a third stays the same, and a third gets better... It seems sometimes like I'm destined to just get worse no matter what I do or don't do.

And to top it off, just as I'm dwelling on the fact that this isn't going to go away, I also have to deal with the bloated face and belly and don't recognize myself in the mirror and that compounds the depression.  I'm still young and it's so hard to deal with feeling unattractive to boot!

Anyway, I just had to vent, thank you for being there to listen :)

to

I don't have a super story to tell myself (since it's too new for me and I didn't experiance the worst at all), but I heard few good one, like my mother boss, who as a quite severe CD and finalily founds is way and now he is in remession. He had around 20-25 BM per day and was still going to work. He said that is best advantage was is moral, he wasn't good at taking all is med correctly. Now he is in full remission, really actif in sport. I think of him when I feel like it might go downhill for me. Keep faith.
I found music really helpful too, those time I'm really into last Bon Jovi's album : The Circle.
It's maybe just me but the whole album sounds like : Yeah, life can be hard and rude, but you'll get trought it and you'll find good in it !

The other thing with you is relativity.. it's stupid, but, well, you'll appreciate more the little things in life. (IMO) The day you'll meet remission, you'll be really happy just to feel somewhat healty, when there is people who always had it and don't manage to be happy. It's all in the perspective.