Minfulness Helps

 Blogger Preface:  Depression is common with multiple sclerosis that can have symptoms that do not go away because it is a chronic progressive disease with no cure and no effective treatments.  We all learned this on the day we we give our diagnosis or there about.  It is a dire prognostication and it is up to the individual to find ways to live with this situation and to remain positive.  We are not our disease and it is important to focus on what we have and not what we have lost to the disease.  Fear about the future is paralyzing and needs to be minimized gaining control of your thought processes and mindfulness meditation really helps with this when you combine it with Cognitive Behavioral   Therapy  techniques of psychiatrists  offered by Aaron Beck .  Beck influenced another of my favorite writers, Martin Seligman who is also a professor at the  University of Pennsylvania and teaches Positive Psychology which is the subject of my blog called Positive Psychology:

 (http://lewisonpositivepsycholgy.blogspot.ca/)

Please go to this site to learn more about learned happiness and other marvelous ideas.  the following book is a good introduction to the topic.  It is available in most libraries.

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The Mindful Way through Depression

Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

(Book - 2007)

Winner of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Seal of Merit! Over 160,000 in print!

The Mindful Way through Depressiondraws on the collective wisdom of four internationally renowned mindfulness experts, including bestselling author Jon Kabat-Zinn, to provide effective relief from the most prevalent psychological disorder.

This authoritative, easy-to-use self-help program is based on methods clinically proven to reduce the recurrence of depression.

Revealing the hidden psychological mechanisms that cause chronic unhappiness, the authors gently guide readers through a series of exercises designed to break the mental habits that lead to despair. 

Kabat-Zinn lends his calm, familiar voice to the accompanying CD of guided meditations, making this a complete package for anyone looking to regain a sense of balance and contentment.

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My intention with Fawlty Wiring is to promote the positive thinking methods to fight the depressing disease of m.s. and work around shortcoming to continue to thrive as best we can.  My S.P.M.S. is particularly embarrassing for my Neurologist who told me he has no drugs or treatments that can address my condition but he "wants to stay in touch in the event of some miracle happening". 

Doctors resent an illness where they can't write out a script and tell you to "take these and rest in bed and you'll be o.k.".  

We need to tell ourselves we will be o.k. even with m.s. and all the complications it imposes on our lives!