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@FallenAngel 

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FallenAngel

Ms depression and anxiety

Does anyone else have a hard time with depression and anxiety due to their ms? I have been having to get hugger depression pills and nothing is helping so I just get to deal with suicidal thoughts daily.
Kalispell, United States
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@AndrewNewton 

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MS & depression

Is it a condition caused by the MS? Is a condition developed because of the restrictions given because of MS? How can it be combated?
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@maljam2002 

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Sitting in the Sun

Sitting in the sunshine helps recharge my psyche, if I can feel MS Depression beginning to creep up on me. https://team-gherkin.blogspot.com/2021/11/sitting-in-sun.html #MSDepression
Sydney, Australia
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@LisaSD 

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Talking With My Family

I can separate my family into three groups. First up are my siblings and my daddy. Daddy and my older sister will ask sometimes how I am doing, but I feel it is mostly like an obligation to them. My two older brothers never ask and I never bring it up. Next up are my in-laws. They always ask and th...
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@isaacson72 

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Question about depression

Good morning from the states! I have a question about MS depression. I have experienced moments of what I think is depression over the last year or so. I had postpartum depression when my son was born 15 years ago (for a very short time... maybe 2-3 days), so I think I recognize what it feels l...
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@Ripley 

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Ripley

Depression

Hi everyone, I'm just wondering is there anyone who suffered with depression before they got MS, I did and with MS depression on top it, just wondering how to cope ?
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@sheetal 

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sheetal

Depression

hi friends since couple of day i have too much depression, is it due to MS? I frustrated too much when i hear voice , by watching face of people they did something wrong, said wrong words to me. will it happen IN MS. Depression happen in MS? please let me , help me in it
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@Kymomma 

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Zero energy and depression

Hey everyone I was diagnosed with MS in 2008 and didn't really have many problems until the past few years. Right now the depression and absolutely zero energy is driving me nuts. When I tell my doctor they say it's probably just low vitamin d levels and send me on my way. I have tried everything to...
Kentucky, USA
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@jochad1 

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Fatigue —> depression

Does anybody get depression off the back of fatigue, or even simple exhaustion? I ask as I’ve just done two back to back workdays over the weekend, so I expect to be tired today. But every Monday following this rota I feel really desolate and depressed. I can’t see anything good in anything and ofte...
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@Gandersen 

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Newly diagnosed depression

I’m newly diagnosed, about 6 weeks now and my mental health is shot to pieces. I don’t think I have ever felt so depressed as a I do now. And I don’t even know why, when I was told I had MS I didn’t think I was that affected but my current behaviour would say different. I feel angry that friends don...
Colchester, United Kingdom
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