Mental Health

By Dr Sally Shaw. Lockdown is a strange beast isn’t it?  Whether you are flat out on Zoom, or staring at the ceiling between Netflix episodes, most people are reporting high levels of ‘over it’ and...

From the psychologist’s perspective: When the COVID-19 pandemic started and we knew we were in for lockdown in Melbourne, I worried that PwMS would shy away from continuing psychological support.  I...

On April 29, 2020, we premiered a video on our Facebook page discussing strategies for managing mental health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. For this discussion, we were joined by Australian...

Recently, Brett has begun interacting with the Multiple Sclerosis thread on Reddit.  During one of these discussions, he started having a conversation with a father about his daughter’s MS journey and, in...

Before I start, I want to take this opportunity to thank our community for the extremely positive feedback received on the last article that debuted our new format for research summaries.  Obviously, we have...

Silence Is Not The Solution To Mental Health Issues in MS For a long time, mental health has been associated with a certain stigma in society.  Primarily, this has been due to a number of misconceptions that...