One of the reasons why MS is such a difficult disease to live with is MS depression. MS depression is a form of depression triggered either directly or indirectly by MS. It impacts patients’ moods, their level of interest in daily life, their sleep patterns and their capacity to concentrate on tasks. MS patients experiencing clinical depression may also be plagued by constant thoughts of suicide or death, and they may experience fatigue much of the time. Their depression can also manifest physically as a headache or as pain in the neck.

Discussing the Causes of MS Depression

The factors specific to MS that can trigger depression are worthy of exploration here. One of them is the progressive damage to the neural tissue as the disease progresses. With demyelination and the associated destructive processes, the brain tissue develops lesions, which have a direct impact on the processes …

MS depression is one of the most severe but often underestimated symptoms of multiple sclerosis, and there are several contributing factors to this. Multiple sclerosis, of course, is one of the most widely-symptomatic illnesses known in modern medicine.

Multiple sclerosis depression is caused by a couple different factors. To really understand either one, it’s first important to understand MS in general, and how its very nature contributes to MS depression to begin with.

Multiple sclerosis is in fact a disease that is sourced in a nerve disorder.  The human nervous system acts as both a computer network and an electrical system for the body. Like any other wiring system, it therefore needs proper insulation in order for the electrical power and signals to maintain integrity.

Nerves are coated in a substance called myelin, a fatty material. In MS, this material develops holes and begins to degrade at varying rates. As …