Episode 263: Managing Your Mental Health When You're Living With MS with Dr. Dawn Ehde
RealTalk MS12 Sep 2022

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

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LINKS

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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

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RealTalk MS Episode 263
Guest: Dr. Dawn Ehde

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