Spotlight: Mental Health Awareness Month
The month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so please join us in raising awareness for the importance of mental health. Many living with MS experience emotional symptoms such as depression, anxiety, and stress in addition to physical symptoms. It’s crucial to know you’re not alone!
Most of all though we want to hear from you! What advice do you have for managing your mental health? Let us know by posting in the our forums, sharing your story, or tweeting!
Forums
Do you have certain ways to cope with the mental and emotional aspects of MS? OR, do you have a question you’d like to ask? Please share it with us in our mental health forum:
Stories
What’s your experience living with MS and the impact it has on your mental health? Share your story with the community here:
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Does MS affect your mental health?
Read how other members in the community talk about managing MS and mental health.
It’s time to get real about Depression and Suicide in MS (and other Chronic Illnesses)
By Devin Garlit—August 25, 2016
When it comes to multiple sclerosis and other chronic illnesses, we seem to be very fond of talking about some of our symptoms, our difficulty walking, speech problems, our pain, and even our fatigue. It’s time, however, that we get real about our mental health problems...
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The Psychology of Living With Chronic Pain
By Stephanie Buxhoeveden, RN, MSCN—July 18, 2014
Whether pain is acute or chronic, it can have a severe impact on our physical and mental health. Over time chronic pain can lead to anxiety, depression, and social isolation...
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Fours Ways to Kick the Emotion Monster to the Curb
By Cathy Chester—July 21, 2016
Sometimes feelings of loneliness creep in to grab a hold of your heart, sending your emotions plummeting so low that you feel out of control...
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Facing Emotional Symptoms of MS Together
By Stephanie Buxhoeveden, RN, MSCN—March 24, 2016
Living with MS, or any chronic illness, brings it’s fair share of emotional challenges. We are all familiar with the emotional roller coaster that follows the initial diagnosis or even a setback...
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Invisible Symptoms of MS: Mood Swings
By Devin Garlit—April 11, 2016
Like many with multiple sclerosis, I have my fair share of problems with walking, spasms, pain, and fatigue. Some of my worst symptoms though, are not physical in nature and fall under the category of emotional and cognitive deficits...
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Surfing an Emotional Tsunami
By Marc Stecker-Wheelchair Kamikaze—October 12, 2014
Dealing with a chronic illness like MS is a multifaceted affair. There’s the physical side of things, each patient having to tackle their own particular hodgepodge of the wide range of symptoms in the Multiple Sclerosis repertoire...
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MS Wellness: Body, Mind and Spirit
By Laura Kolaczkowski—May 30, 2015
It was late Friday afternoon at the annual meeting for the Consortium for MS Centers and after three days of intense science and medical discussions, many of which involved words I can barely spell let alone understand, my brain was ready for a break...
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