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Mood Changes in Multiple Sclerosis
How MS Affects Your Mood
cognitive function
Can potentially cause disruptions in communication and your relationships
Multiple sclerosis can significantly impact your mood. Not only because MS is challenging to live with, but it affects parts of the brain that control your mood. Mood changes are a symptom of MS as well as a reaction to it. Recognizing and addressing mood changes is important because your mood:
Impacts how you function and feel daily
Affects your ability to adapt to change, problem-solve effectively and take care of yourself
(Since Dave started treatment) “Honestly, I think the relationship with my wife has gotten a lot stronger. I am capable of doing a lot of things now, I can be a dad to my kids and a husband to my wife and actually be here. Now I can refocus my passion on my family.”
—Dave, Diagnosed in 2016
“I noticed (after starting medication treatment), in time, things I liked to do, I wanted to do again. Then it got to a place where you couldn’t keep me in the house, all I wanted to do was be out in the world again.”
—Anne Marie, Diagnosed in 2002
(Bon-Bon her adopted therapy dog) "Bon-Bon helped me a lot. I have company, I don’t feel that alone, I don’t feel that depressed anymore. Another good thing about the dog is that he makes me move again, he makes me get up. Bon-Bon is a rescue, but he rescued me.”
