Reclaiming Your Life Coping With Multiple Sclerosis
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| Author | : Daniel Melehi |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-05-14 |
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If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, you know how challenging it can be to navigate the ups and downs of this disease. In "Reclaiming Your Life - Coping with Multiple Sclerosis," you'll find practical advice and inspiration for living a full and vibrant life despite the challenges of MS. From managing symptoms to taking control of your diet and exercise, this book offers a comprehensive approach to managing MS and regaining your independence. Drawing on years of personal experience and expertise, author [Author Name] provides a roadmap for reclaiming your life and thriving with MS. With tips on everything from managing pain to finding support, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to take an active role in their MS treatment. Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient or a long-time MS warrior, "Reclaiming Your Life" is an essential guide to living your best life with this condition.
| Author | : Meagan Freeman |
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| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2015-03-31 |
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| ISBN | : 9780692405598 |
Coping with the daily experience of multiple sclerosis can be a challenge. Patients who are seeking information about life after diagnosis will enjoy this personal story of success. Meagan Freeman was a full time college student, veteran ER nurse, and mother of 6 when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2009. Meagan continued on with her schooling despite the shocking diagnosis, and graduated with a Masters degree/Family Nurse Practitioner certification in 2012. Balancing a healthcare career, a large blended family, and the daily effects of MS, Meagan offers sound advice on using hardship as a motivator. Readers will find inspiration, knowledge, and hope in this guide to survival and success despite an MS diagnosis. Journal prompts are included at the end of each chapter, culminating in what will become the reader's own "MS story" at the end of the book. Topics include: Diagnosis day, pain, substance abuse, emotional manifestations of chronic illness, parenting with chronic illness, finding an excellent provider, and finding purpose after the career ends. Meagan openly shares her own personal struggles, holding nothing back. She has truly "walked the walk," and readers will experience a living example of success despite illness. "The Hero the Story is an honest look at how multiple sclerosis affected this busy working mom's life. The book is divided into sections focused on a specific illness related topic and includes journal prompts for readers to write down feelings, thoughts and ideas. Obviously, to me this is genius as writing is very therapeutic for me." -Modern Day MS
| Author | : Judy Graham |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2010-06-24 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1594779074 |
A totally revised and updated edition of the first book to offer a holistic approach to slowing the progression of MS • Provides guidance on special diets and nutritional supplements, exercise, alternative therapies, and the effects of negative and positive thoughts on MS • Explains how to reduce toxic overload from mercury and chemicals • Includes life wisdom and coping strategies from others who suffer with MS Judy Graham is an inspiration. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 26 years old, 35 years later Judy Graham is still walking, working, and has successfully birthed and raised a son who is now an adult. In this totally revised and updated edition of her groundbreaking Multiple Sclerosis, first published in 1984, she shares the natural treatments that have helped her and many others with MS stabilize or even reverse the condition. Beginning with the effects of diet, she explains that many people with MS have been eating the wrong foods and shows which foods are “good” and “bad,” how to recognize food sensitivities, and how to correct nutritional deficiencies using dietary supplements. She also looks at reducing the body’s toxic overload, whether from mercury amalgam fillings, chemicals, or medications. She presents the exercises with proven benefits for MS she has found most reliable and appropriate, such as yoga, pilates, and t’ai chi, and explores alternative therapies that provide relief and support to the body’s efforts to control MS, including acupuncture, reflexology, shiatsu, reiki, and ayurveda. Most important are the insights she provides on the effects of negative thoughts on MS. She demonstrates how a positive mental attitude can actually slow down or even reverse the progression of this disease. Judy Graham is living proof that, as devastating as a diagnosis of MS is, life can still be lived to its fullest.
| Author | : Allison Shadday |
| Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2011-02-15 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 0897936019 |
Multiple Sclerosis is a devastating, incurable disease that afflicts about one in a thousand North Americans. Striking in the prime of life, it is the most common debilitating neurological disorder of people between the ages of 20 and 40. Eighty percent of patients suffer from cognitive impairments, seventy percent from sexual dysfunction, and fifty percent from depression. Few people are prepared for the emotional impact of this unpredictable, disabling chronic condition. Faced with a life-long progressive illness, patients typically experience fear, anger, sadness, grief, guilt, low self-esteem and sexual dysfunction. Half of all MS patients suffer from clinical depression. Other invisible symptoms, such as cognitive impairments and severe fatigue, often leave patients feeling misunderstood and alone. The emotional affects of MS can be more crippling than the physical challenges, yet little has been written on this topic. MS AND YOUR FEELINGS is the first book to specifically address the emotional pain caused by MS. Psychotherapist and MS patient, Allison Shadday, offers readers effective strategies for coping with the psychological trauma of this disease. Shadday shares real-life MS success stories and offers insightful professional advice derived from years of counseling hundreds of chronically ill patients. Her book offers readers hope, inspiration and validation, and teaches them: ·How to come to terms with an MS diagnosis ·How to recognize and overcome negative emotional responses to MS ·Techniques to identify and manage stress triggers that can impact MS symptoms ·Ways to minimize MS-related fatigue ·Strategies for coping with fear, guilt, anger, loss, depression and isolation ·Steps to enhance intimacy and build support networks ·How to deal with cognitive challenges ·Tips for increasing self-esteem ·How to develop a greater sense of emotional security and stability ·Latest information about new treatment options and promising research In addition, noted neurologist and MS expert Dr. Stanley Cohan, Director of the Pacific Northwest Multiple Sclerosis Center writes about the importance of treating the emotional symptoms of MS and discusses the promising future of MS drug research. Full of immediate, useful solutions, MS AND YOUR FEELINGS is an invaluable guide for patients, their loved ones and MS health care professionals.
| Author | : Shelley Peterman Schwarz |
| Publisher | : Springer Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2017-04-11 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 0826156347 |
An MS diagnosis presents many unanswered questions: How is this diagnosis going to change my life? Where do I begin? How will I manage to take care of my family, work, and travel? No one knows the answers to these questions better than Shelley Peterman Schwarz, who has lived nearly forty years with multiple sclerosis. Schwarz imbues her updated collection of practical tips and short cuts with personal stories that highlight her trials and triumphs. Shelley shares her real-life experiences as a wife, mother, friend, and employee/employer coping, managing, and growing with MS with a humorous warmth and unflinching honesty. This extensively revised and updated third edition is packed with helpful information and now includes over 800 tips and new solutions and strategies for confronting the challenges of living a full life with a debilitating chronic illness. With Shelley’s guidance, readers will learn to conserve valuable time and energy, develop techniques for making everyday tasks easier, manage symptoms, maintain positive relationships, stay motivated, and bounce back when MS knocks you down. Expanded chapters cover medical issues, home safety and accessibility, dressing and looking your best, and travel. NEW sections include: A Thriver’s Guide Taking Charge Mentally and Physically Family and Friends Marriage Sexual Compatibility and Intimacy Being a Parent Driving and Disability Working Finding Help and Support With hundreds of new tips and tools, and practical wisdom for meeting challenges large and small, this book continues to inform, encourage, validate, and empower individuals and families living with multiple sclerosis.
| Author | : Judy Graham |
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| Total Pages | : 11 |
| Release | : 2000 |
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| Author | : Rosalind Kalb |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 411 |
| Release | : 2011-02-25 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1118050991 |
Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) doesn’t have to mean your life is over. Everyone’s MS is different and no one can predict exactly what yours will be like. The fact is, lots of people live their lives with MS without making a full-time job of it. MS for Dummies gives you easy to access, easy to understand information about what happens with MS—what kinds of symptoms it can cause, how it can affect your life at home and at work, what you can do to feel and function up to snuff, and how you can protect yourself and your family against the long-term unpredictability of the disease. You'll learn: Why some people get MS and others don’t How to make treatment and lifestyle choices that work for you What qualities to look for in a neurologist and in the rest of your healthcare team How to manage fatigue, walking problems, and visual changes Why the road to diagnosis can be full of twists and turns How to understand the pros and cons of alternative medicine Why and how to talk to your kids about MS How to find stress management strategies that work for you Your rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act Complete with listings of valuable resources such as other books, Web sites, and community agencies and organizations that you can tap for information or assistance, MS for Dummies will tell you everything you need to know in order to make educated choices and comfortable decisions about life with MS.
| Author | : David Mohr |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
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| Release | : 2010-02-03 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0199709246 |
Multiple Sclerosis presents not only physical challenges, but emotional challenges as well. Many people with MS suffer from depression, anxiety and stress. Problems with mood and stress can interfere with your relationships with others, reduce your ability to meet your obligations at work and at home, and substantially worsen your overall quality of life. If you have MS and are experiencing problems with mood and stress, this workbook can help. The stress and mood management program described in this book is backed by research and has proven effective in clinical trials. Based on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), one of the most effective therapeutic techniques available for combating depression and anxiety, this program can help you manage stress and improve your well-being. In Part I of the program, you will learn skills for identifying and challenging your unhelpful thoughts, as well as how to motivate yourself to reengage in pleasant activities. In Part II, you will choose those treatment modules that apply to you and your specific MS-related problems. Choices include modules on managing symptoms like fatigue, pain, and cognitive problems, and improving communication and assertiveness skills, among others. If you take injectable medications and have a fear of injecting yourself, the module on self-injection anxiety will also prove useful. Complete with user-friendly forms and worksheets, this workbook provides all the materials you need to supplement treatment with a qualified mental health professional. If you are a highly motivated individual, you may have success using this book on your own. Whatever the setting, the stress and mood management program will give you the tools to handle the stresses of your disease and improve the overall quality of your life.
| Author | : Shelley Peterman Schwarz |
| Publisher | : Demos Medical Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2006-03-01 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1934559318 |
This completely revised second edition of Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier contains tips, techniques, and shortcuts to help MS patients organize and simplify their lives. With over 300 tips readers will learn to conserve valuable time and energy, develop techniques for making life easier, so they can enjoy life to the fullest. From basic principles to unique solutions for saving time and energy to specific ideas, this book is packed with helpful information for those coping with the special challenges of a chronic illness. Updated chapters cover Home Safety and Accessibility; Computers and Technology; Looking Good, Feeling Better - Grooming and Dressing; Managing Mealtime; and much more. NEW sections include: Managing medical issues Travel tips for weekend getaways or extended travel Unique product suggestions for practical helpful items that make everyday tasks easier Resource section to easily locate products and services Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier, 2nd Edition is a valuable resource for individuals living with MS, family members, caregivers, and medical professionals.
| Author | : George Jelinek |
| Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2013-06-01 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1743313810 |
A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis conjures up images of wheelchairs and a shortened life, but in fact it's possible to regain mobility and make a recovery. These deeply moving life stories of twelve people from around the world offer real hope to people with MS everywhere. These determined women and men have been able to halt the progression of the disease and recover mobility by making significant lifestyle changes including diet, sunshine, meditation, exercise, and for some, using drug therapy. Based on extended interviews, these stories offer an insight into the different journeys to recovery. They also highlight the challenges faced by people with different types of MS and at different stages in the progression of the disease.
