A lot of people with MS are very worried and confused right now about the coronavirus outbreak. In this episode we talk to Janice from the MS Trust info team about what coronavirus COVID-19 is and how it could affect your MS. We also talk to two members of the MS community about how they are coping and ask if they have some ideas to share on how to not get too anxious about it all.

We speak to Dr Anita Rose about how you can take care of our mental health during the coronavirus crisis. We also chat to Will Berard, who lives with MS, about how he is coping in the COVID-19 lockdown.

We know that lots of you, understandably, have questions about the coronavirus and MS. So for this episode, 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. We also chat to Carla King, who lives with MS, about her experience of dealing with lockdown.

The first episode in our new series all about MS and mental health. We chat to Gemma from the MS Trust’s Information Team about why mental health problems are more common in MS, neuropsychologist 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.

The second episode of new series focusses on the newly diagnosed and the impact an MS diagnosis can have on your mental health. In the episode, we hear from Emily and Will about what has helped them come to terms with their diagnosis and Claire from our Information Team talks about some of the coping strategies which can help.

The third episode of the series focuses on anxiety. We hear from Mike, a person with MS who talks about his experience of anxiety since being diagnosed with MS. We then catch up with neuropsychologist Jo Johnson, who guides us through a few acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) exercises that you can follow along with.

The fourth episode of the series focuses on MS nurses and how they can help people with multiple sclerosis 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. She also shares some great tips like breathing exercises that you could try yourself.

In this fifth episode of the series 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 Jessie Ace, who was diagnosed with MS seven years ago and is passionate about raising awareness of the condition.

In this last episode of "It's all in your head", 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, and how we can ease ourselves back to normality when lockdown ends.