Read Online MS and Your Feelings Handling the Ups and Downs of Multiple Sclerosis Allison Shadday LSCW Stanley Cohan MD PhD 9780897934893 Books

Product details Paperback 240 pages Publisher Hunter House; 1 edition (December 28, 2006) Language English ISBN-10 9780897934893 ISBN-13 978-0897934893 ASIN 089793489X

MS and Your Feelings Handling the Ups and Downs of Multiple Sclerosis Allison Shadday LSCW Stanley Cohan MD PhD 9780897934893 Books Reviews

• It's full of good info, but also on a lot of things when you can further information, it feels like an infomercial. I think it takes away from the message.
• MS and Your Feelings is a must for anyone dealing with the ravages of MS. Even if your MS is following a relatively benign course, the emotions associated with loss around a chronic disease, plus the loss of cognitive functions, memory, and emotional stability associated with the disease itself make this book timely and helpful. I've read it through twice already - first when first diagnosed, and again when my emotions were getting out of control.
  Filled with good, sensible information and encouragement, it's a keeper, for frequent revisiting. If you buy one book about the emotional changes of MS, this should be the book.
• I recommend this book for anyone living with Multiple Sclerosis. The format lends itself to giving the MSers good topics to discuss with family, friends, caretakers. I've bought six of these books to give to, my psychiatrist, family members, and friends. I keep on hand when going to physical therapy should I run into someone that is living with MS and having a hard time.
• I have had MS for who knows how long--Dx'd with RRMS 10 years ago. I found this book helpfull in that it confirms feelings and symptoms that I have. I also believe that it has some helpful hints on how to cope with the day-to-day issues that arise from living with MS.
  
  The only criticism I have would be that it is primarily female oriented. Not a fault, but would like to find a similar book from a male point of view.
  
  Having said that--it is the best book that I have read on the subject.
• Allison Shadday has given us a clearly written and well-organized treatment on a subject that is not often covered for those of us with MS. The book has a great balance between the facts and the experiences of real-life ms-ers, including her own.
  
  The book handles the various symptoms of MS and how they affect emotions, and vice-versa. The chapters on depression, sexual intimacy and caregivers are excellent.
  
  I recommend this book to all patients and their circles.
• I originally got this book at the library. I hesitated because some MS books can be very heavy or dry. This book was excellent! I found it very helpful, even though I've had MS for years. I bought one for myself & had some of my family read it, too. I even got a couple for gifts for friends with MS. I highly recommend it, especially if you have people in your life who could use a little MS education. It's also great to validate things for you personally. It's an easy read & definitely worth the time.
• this book provides the person with MS or their caregiver with much needed information on emotions, thought problems, communications, and other areas in which MS symptoms affect functioning. it is well-written and quite easy to read. it offers a nice summary of functioning as well as a few strategies for managing the different symptoms. i found that this book is a good augmentation to the MS Workbook, which provides a more comprehensive background and worksheets than the current book. several times, the author stated something that i hadn't read before, and i wanted to read the original source, but none were provided. i only discovered about one dozen typographical errors, no errors of fact or grammar. this is a very good book for the non-clinician and non-academic.
• I have not actually read this book yet, but my boyfriend who was recently diagnosed with MS has been reading it. He has read different things to me and has told me how helpful it has been to help him understand some of the things he is going through.