Mental Sharpening Stones: Manage The Cognitive Challenges Of Multiple Sclerosis

by Jeffrey N. Gingold

"With an estimated 400,000 multiple sclerosis patients in the United States alone, conservatively speaking, half of the MS population will encounter varying degrees of cognitive difficulties. Newer studies point to a percentage of 65%, affecting over 2.5 million world-wide MS patients. Mental Sharpening Manage the Cognitive Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis provides real-life techniques garnered from MS patients and their medical providers, sharing their practical methods for pushing back against the disruptive and potentially disabling cognitive symptoms that affect MS patients. The book offers strategies that will assist those living with MS to retain their intellectual faculties through sharpening their mental discipline. This book is a vital step beyond acknowledging cognitive symptoms and the revealing changes that can affect those living with MS. It will also inform those who know them physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The contributing writers of this book serve as exemplars and guides of how to live with and function - despite MS cognitive challenges. This book

259 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2008

About the author

Jeffrey N. Gingold is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author, and published freelance writer. Jeffrey has been interviewed on national television, public radio shows, in magazines, and numerous global publications. He is an outspoken advocate for Holocaust education who shares his father*s epic survival and unforeseen life twists in the Warsaw ghetto. Jeffrey donates 100 percent of his author royalties from this publication to Holocaust education and research.

Reviews

[Vicky Williamson]

I was recommended this book by another MSer. As a UK woman I did find his style a bit 'American Man' to start with, but I guess that's what he is!
Once I got into it though I found it hugely positive and uplifting. The stories of other people living with MS helped me recognise how I already manage my cognitive challenges in some similar ways, and that it's ok. And gave me ideas as to how I can do more. If anything it helped most with depression, brought on by MS but exacerbated by the cognitive issues associated with it. It surprised me how happy some of these stories made me feel, and left me determined to make the most of the life I have and to try to be honest with the people around me.