Having MS, or Multiple Sclerosis can seem like a daunting thing to have to go through. Even though there are treatments to help with symptoms and potentially slow the disease, there is no known cure. However, I’m glad to share with you good news about how positive thinking can help with MS.
Cynthia McKelvey gives you all this amazing info.
A recent meta-analysis suggests that treating some of the psychological complications of multiple sclerosis may have a positive effect on physical symptoms as well.
Multiple sclerosis is a disease that eats away not only at a person’s physical capabilities, but also at their emotional well-being. People with MS have roughly three times the lifetime prevalence of major depressive disorder compared to the general population. Just as with the physical aspects of the disease, emotional issues vary from person to person.
People with MS may become depressed because they feel bad about having the disease, or the disease itself may beget depression. Regardless of the reason, psychological interventions aimed at improving mood, behavior, and thinking can help alleviate emotional symptoms. But the effects of these interventions may extend beyond mood, according to a recent meta-analysis published in the journal BMC Neurology. Treatments that aim to improve patients’ mood, thinking, and behavior may also improve physical symptoms like fatigue, disturbed sleeping, and pain (Pagnini et al., 2014).
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