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Living With Multiple Sclerosis

Living with multiple sclerosis improves when changes in thinking lift multiple sclerosis depression. Living with multiple sclerosis takes serenity because MS can make everyday tasks seem like giant hurdles that are impossible and past joys like times that can be only remembered not repeated. Living with multiple sclerosis takes backbone because it can make others seem like judges who doubt your capacities and capabilities and who find you odd and unattractive. And probably most difficult, demanding, and draining of all, living with multiple sclerosis takes courage because MS can make the future seem like an abyss that you are not only teetering on the edge of, but also being sucked into. Living with multiple sclerosis is hating multiple sclerosis—I have done both for the past 23 years. I hate it because it can make you feel helpless, joyless, worthless, hopeless. Multiple sclerosis can do some or all of this, if you let it.

Multiple sclerosis: think better to feel better
by Michael D. LeBow, Ph.D. C.Psych.

IF YOU LET IT. And you do let it if when living with multiple sclerosis you assume it diminishes your worth, impoverishes your joy, devastates your future, or decimates your independence.

This Enableme workbook on beating multiple sclerosis depression shows you a better way of living with multiple sclerosis. Its premise is that what you tell yourself about yourself affects how you feel about yourself. Based upon principles and practices of cognitive behavior therapy, the book guides those living with multiple sclerosis and depressed about their condition into thinking differently in order to feel happier, more upbeat, and more hopeful. Its lessons reflect my training in cognitive behavior therapy and my desire to improve the lives of those living with multiple sclerosis who, like me, struggle daily with this malady and the psychological fallout from it.

So, if you're living with multiple sclerosis and finding yourself moping more than coping, read this book—printed in large type. It describes five misery-generating, esteem-draining, dignity-quashing disability assumptions—some may have hold of you without your even realizing it—and how to recognize, question, challenge, and defeat them. This book is about living with multiple sclerosis. It teaches you to teach yourself to think better in order to feel better. I use it not just for my depressed and downtrodden MS patients, but also for myself in my battles with this hateful, unforgiving, ever encroaching disease.

CHAPTERS
1. Disability Stinks
2. Assumptions That Disable

Disputing The Assumption That:
3. Disability Diminishes Worth
4. Disability Ends Happiness
5. Disability Means Ugly
6. Disability Means Helpless
7. Disability Means Hopeless
8. Relating, Fatiguing, Sleeping
9. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Tools
In Conclusion

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