In many patients, multiple sclerosis and depression are closely associated. This should not come as a surprise. MS is a highly stressful disease which also affects the nervous tissue and is treated using drugs that have powerful side effects. As a consequence, there are a number of different ways in which the disease can trigger depression.

Depression and Multiple Sclerosis: The Causes

As alluded to in the above paragraph, multiple sclerosis depression can be triggered by the stress that comes from living with multiple sclerosis. This has to do with the fact that MS is a chronic, little-understood disease with no known conventional medical cure. Furthermore, in many cases, the prognosis is bleak: patients have to contend with the fact that they are likely to end up with at least one of many possible forms of disability. They may lose part of their vision, their mobility, and may …

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 …