Episode 263: Managing Your Mental Health When You're Living With MS with Dr. Dawn Ehde

In addition to its physical symptoms, MS can also affect your emotional well-being. Depression, persistent anxiety, and extreme irritability are common. And, just like the physical symptoms of MS, they require treatment. But people living with MS tend to focus on their physical health and, too often, end up neglecting their mental health. Dr. Dawn Ehde joins me to talk about maintaining and strengthening your emotional well-being when you're living with MS, and she'll introduce you to a new resource that you're going to want to know about. This Thursday, the National MS Society is hosting the virtual Hispanic/Latinx MS Experience Summit. The event is free and the sessions will be available in both English and Spanish. We're sharing the details and we'll tell you how and where to register. We'll tell you about a study that compared how low-efficacy and high-efficacy disease-modifying medications impacted brain atrophy and disease activity. We'll share study results that showed how choosing to be on disease-modifying medications affected mortality. And we'll tell you about a study that focused on how MS impacts your ability to show up at work. We have a lot to talk about! Are you ready for RealTalk MS??! This Week: Managing your mental health  :22 The Hispanic/Latinx MS Experience Summit takes place this Thursday, Sept 15. Here's how to register  2:20 A study compares low-efficacy and high-efficacy disease-modifying medications   3:40 A study assesses the association between being on a disease-modifying medication and surviving  7:39 A study shows that that people with MS miss work more than twice as much as healthy people  9:56 Dr. Dawn Ehde discusses how you can maintain and strengthen your emotional well-being and she introduces a new resource that you're going to want to know about  14:40 Share this episode  31:06 Download the RealTalk MS app for your iOS or Android device   31:27 SHARE THIS EPISODE OF REALTALK MS Just copy this link & paste it into your text or email: https://realtalkms.com/263 ADD YOUR VOICE TO THE CONVERSATION I've always thought about the RealTalk MS podcast as a conversation. And this is your opportunity to join the conversation by sharing your feedback, questions, and suggestions for topics that we can discuss in future podcast episodes. Please shoot me an email or call the RealTalk MS Listener Hotline and share your thoughts! Email: [email protected] Phone: (310) 526-2283 And don't forget to join us in the RealTalk MS Facebook group! LINKS If your podcast app doesn't allow you to click on these links, you'll find them in the show notes in the RealTalk MS app or at www.RealTalkMS.com National MS Society COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance for People Living with MS https://www.nationalmssociety.org/coronavirus-covid-19-information/multiple-sclerosis-and-coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-guidance What to Expect from Mental Health Care: A Guide for People with MS https://www.nationalmssociety.org/getmedia/a4fa7de4-2196-4b6d-9dd5-e804ecfdb119/CD_pubs_mentalHealthGuidance_0422_FINAL.pdf National MS Society Hispanic/Latinx MS Experience Summit https://nmss.6connex.com/event/HispanicandLatinx/Login STUDY: High-Efficacy Therapy Reduces Subcortical Grey Matter in Japanese Patients with Relapsing-Onset Multiple Sclerosis: A 2-Year Cohort Study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211034822005855 STUDY: Disease-Modifying Drugs for Multiple Sclerosis and Association with Survival https://nn.neurology.org/content/9/5/e200005 RealTalk MS Episode 211: The Ins and Outs of Employment with MS with Dr. Phillip Rumrill https://realtalkms.com/211 STUDY: Work Productivity Loss Among Adults Aged 18-64 Years with Multiple Sclerosis in the United States: A Propensity Score Matched Study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1551741122002091?via%3Dihub Join the RealTalk MS Facebook Group https://facebook.com/groups/realtalkms Download the RealTalk MS App for iOS Devices https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/realtalk-ms/id1436917200 Download the RealTalk MS App for Android Deviceshttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.wizzard.android.realtalk Give RealTalk MS a rating and review http://www.realtalkms.com/review Follow RealTalk MS on Twitter, @RealTalkMS_jon, and subscribe to our newsletter at our website, RealTalkMS.com. RealTalk MS Episode 263 Guest: Dr. Dawn Ehde Tags: MS, MultipleSclerosis, MSResearch, MSSociety, RealTalkMS Privacy Policy