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Depression, Suicide and Multiple Sclerosis #MultipleSclerosis

By spinytim on October 10, 2010

Depression, Suicide and Multiple Sclerosis – Multiple Sclerosis

Suicide and MS have had a long relationship. This is Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 5-11), and Sept. 10 is Suicide Prevention Day.

Depression is experienced in 40 – 60 percent of the MS population. Although MS is not a fatal disease, severe depression accounts for 3 to 15 percent of MS deaths by suicide. These are not insignificant statistics. While I am not a doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, or any kind of trained therapist, I am going to talk about MS an suicide today. There are so many options for MSers who feel the pain of depression as well as some other symptoms.

There are documented cases of assisted suicides associated with MS, although it doesn’t happen so frequently since disease-modifying drugs have come on the scene. People who have MS and have developed symptoms that make life unbearable consider their options, and some select suicide . Of course, what is unbearable is an individual measure. Even Dr. Jack Kevorkian said, “I don’t persuade to suicide.”

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