Podcasts from the MS Trust

During the pandemic many people with MS were told to shield. But what was it like for the keyworkers with MS? In this episode of our podcast we chat to Mel, about her experiences of working as a nurse during lockdown.

MS is often diagnosed in your 20's when a lot of people are starting their working career. During 2020 many people found themselves on furlough, or being made redundant. In this episode we speak to Amy, who started not one but 2 new jobs during 2020.

During 2020 we had to learn to live with the new norm where everything moved to online. But how does that work when you are expecting a baby? In this episode we chat to Jenna and Annie, two ladies with MS who both found out they were expecting during lockdown.

During lockdown a lot of us felt drained from doing nothing at all. In this episode we meet Ant Chapman, a musician and educator, and chat to him about his MS journey and how getting creative and starting to stream music making sessions on Twitch helped him get through lockdown.

This past year has been tough on all of us. But imagine being diagnosed with a lifelong condition such as multiple sclerosis in the middle of it all. In this podcast the MS Trust chat to two young women, to find out how they coped with their MS diagnosis in the middle of a pandemic.

In the final episode of the series we chat about loneliness and anxiety with Claire from the MS Trust Information Team. We also talk to Catherine Seymour from the Mental Health Foundation about the impact of lockdown on our mental health.

In this episode we chat to Sara Coffey, a dramatherapist, who explains more about dramatherapy as an approach to dealing with mental health problems. We also talk to podcaster, illustrator, author, and all round inspiring lady, Jessie Ace.

The fourth episode of this series focuses on MS nurses and how they can help people with MS with their mental health. We speak to MS Nurse Sally Fox about why she thinks mental health is important and how you could talk to your MS nurse about it.

The third episode of the series focuses on anxiety, a feeling many people with MS will be familiar with. We hear from Mike, a person with MS who talks about his experience of anxiety since being diagnosed with MS, as well as during the coronavirus outbreak.

The second episode of new series focusses on the newly diagnosed and the impact an MS diagnosis can have on mental health. We hear from Emily and Will about what has helped them come to terms with their diagnosis.

In this podcast we discuss why mental health problems are more common in MS, Dr Anita Rose shares her top tips for taking care of your mental wellbeing, and Chris and Carla, who both live with MS, share their experiences.

We're living in uncertain times and we know that lots of you, understandably, have questions about the coronavirus and MS. So for this podcast, we've pulled together some of the questions that have cropped up the most and asked Claire, who works in our Information Team, to answer them.