Facing the Cognitive Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society estimates that over 400,000 people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and there are millions more worldwide. Conservatively speaking, half of them will encounter varying degrees of cognitive difficulties. Facing the Cognitive Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis brings this hidden disability into the open. It is an essential resource that will educate individuals coping with multiple sclerosis, and inform their families, caregivers, doctors and therapists.
This new edition has been revised with on-point cognitive strategies and updated MS resources. The book includes a new foreword written by Dr. Dawn Langdon of the UK MS Trust and four completely new chapters that follow Jeffrey's journey since 2006. He openly explores some MS physical symptoms, which may accompany the thinking impediments that strike at his cognitive awareness and functions. Jeffrey carves a path of finding physical and cognitive wellness, as well as weighing the need to accept beneficial MS medical therapies. Not only did he become more active in the movement to cure MS, the progression of his MS led to a more controversial MS treatment, in effort to make his disease manageable. Jeffrey also shares the benefits of introducing a œsafety person” into a life with MS and the strength gained from helping others, even while they may be assisting you.
Whether or not a person is dealing with the cognitive issues associated with multiple sclerosis this book deserves to be on the bookshelf of every individual who is dealing with multiple sclerosis."
1. ""Hollar"" If You Need Me
2. The Knock at the Door
3. Music and Mirrors
4. Unanswered Questions
5. It's In the House
6. The Family Mask
7.Feeling the Edges
8. Don't Just Stand There
9. Taking the Middle Fork
10. Drifting and Dragging in a Mental Wheelchair
11.Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
12.In the Game
13. A Team Effort
14. Gathering New Pieces
In Summation
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- Release Date: June 17, 2011
- Paperback / softback
- 240 Pages
- Trim Size: 6in x 9in
- ISBN: 9781936303205
- eBook ISBN: 9781617050879