Selma Blair was labeled "crazy" when she has presented symptoms from sep to 7 years
The actor did not obtain his diagnosis before she was in the middle of the forties.
Actor Selma Blair has not been diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis (MS) Until 2018, when she was in her forties. But she had without knowing it the symptoms of the disease for years, dating from her childhood. Since the publicly announcement of her diagnosis, Blair has expressed her life with the MS and the challenges she met to discover what was wrong with her. In a new interview with British Vogue , the 50 -year -old star revealed that she had been pushed back by doctors when she was already fighting against the symptoms of the SEP at the age of seven. Read the rest to discover what she had to say about being labeled "Crazy" and her trip MS after that.
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Blair was faced with serious health problems at a young age.
"This thing you didn't know. It was there from the start," Blair wrote in an essay About his MS underdiagnosed for a long time for The Guardian In 2022. "The pieces began to be put in place. I had suffered from symptoms that were going and would have come since childhood. Fivers, urinary tract infections, nervous pain and numbness, depression."
British Vogue History of the coverage of May 2023 On the actor notes that "when Blair was seven years old, she had lost use of her right eye, her left leg and her bladder".
According to the Mayo clinic, Sep "is a potentially disabling disease brain and spinal cord (central nervous system) "and symptoms may include" partial or complete loss of vision, generally in one eye at a time, often with pain during the movement of the eyes "," unstable or unstable or Inability to walk ". And" problems of sexual, intestinal and bladder function ", among others.
His concerns were rejected.
According British Vogue , Blair's mother first thought that her daughter could have cancer and "sometimes become frustrated" by the quantity of additional care she needed. But Blair explained that neither her mother nor the doctors whom she saw was capable or willing to understand what was really going on inside her body. She told the magazine that she had been dismissed as hysterical, in part because of her sex. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"If you are a boy with these symptoms, you get an MRI. If you are a girl, you are called" crazy "," said Blair.
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It has been self-managed with alcohol and other adaptation mechanisms.
For The Guardian , Blair wrote that she "tried to finish [her symptoms] with alcohol". And in his Memoirs, 2022 Nasty baby (via Today ), she revealed that She first was drunk At the age of seven, that is to say that it began to feel serious effects of the youth.
While the actor has marked roles in films like Cruel intentions ,, The revenge of a blonde , And The sweetest thing , she remained without diagnosis for her various health problems. "I just thought I was an extremely emotional person," said Blair British Vogue uncontrollable mood swings she would have. What she learned later was that the frontal lobe of her brain had been damaged by the disease.
However, she continued to work.
"The sets were sometimes excruciating with exhaustion and tics. I took benzos and klonopina [a medication used to prevent convulsions and anxiety disorders]," recalls Blair in the magazine. "I did not abuse these things, just alcohol. But I was lost and sad and I could almost never smile. Hence my roles, I imagine."
The actor explained that she was afraid of losing jobs by "considering a risk of insurance", so she tried to hide her health problems and his alcoholism. She also said that she "wanted [herself] to be dead" often and had tried a few times to commit suicide.
Blair was sober Since 2016.
His MS is now in remission.
Blair announced in 2021 that she Mrs was in remission After transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells. Two years later, She gave an update to Today , saying: "I always have symptoms. I don't have the absolute weakness that I have had for a long time, and if I focus on something really really and I am awake, I can correct it. But often, that Just take a lot of energy. "
She shared with British Vogue That her condition always varies day by day and that it must avoid the sun, because it "always triggers an extreme weakness and lethargy". Blair also uses various aids, including an assistance dog.
As for his future as an actor, Blair is carefully optimistic that productions will be ready to meet his needs. "[I think producers] are open there now," she told the magazine of disabled casting actors. "The reality of an ensemble is another thing: hours, nights, logistics somewhere to curl up and reset my nervous system once over -activated. The time again - but it is absolutely feasible for me. I have to jump. "
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