CMA Ribbon Avatar

There are a ton of different meanings for the awareness ribbon colors, and since more than one apply to me I wasn't sure which one to pick. But the chronic migraine awareness group posted this on the home page: "There is now a ribbon to represent our condition. The purple represents the chronic pain that we are in; the red stripe represents how migraine disorder cuts into our lives. It makes us see red in anger for the people we no longer are. Our sister condition is depression, which is brought on by living in constant pain, her colors add black in recognition of those that have taken their lives in order to end the pain. As Chronic Migraine sufferers we are three times as likely to commit suicide because of the constant agonizing pain. I personally have considered it myself, but we do stupid things when we are in pain. The worst thing about our condition, though, is this: it victimizes the youngest among us. Migraine disease affects infants and has recently been linked to cholic. Children, teens will most likely become chronic later in their lives. CM doesn't discriminate, affecting both sexes, and all ages." (chronicmigraineawareness.com)