Julie Stachowiak

The Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto (eBook, ePUB)

Action to Take, Principles to Live By

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An empowering guide for increasing your quality of life, navigating challenges, and embracing opportunities

Julie Stachowiak, PhD is the About.com Guide to Multiple Sclerosis. As an epidemiologist who is also a person living with MS, Julie has an in-depthunderstanding about the scientific developments around MS and the personal side of living with a chronic illness. In the Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto, Julie shows you how to create your own personal MS manifesto and provides practical tools and reassurance to help you ìget betterî in your life, from optimizing medical care and managing symptoms, to strengthening relationships, dealing with emotions, and embracing activism.

Committed to making the hard parts easier and the good parts last longer, Julie show you how to figure out what you need, identify opportunities, understand challenges, and get your needs met. With the Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto, youíll know how to:

• Create your personal mission statement
• Protect yourself by learning more about medications you are currently taking or considering to take
• Determine what you want in a doctor and how to evaluate the doctor you have
• Celebrate your successesóand why itís essential that you do
• Make disclosing your MS status to friends, family and others easier
• Find a support group

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 173
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781935281726
• Artikelnr.: 37994570

Autorenporträt

Julie Stachowiak, PhD, is the Guide to multiple sclerosis for About.com. She writes articles for the website (ms.about.com) the goal of which is to build a comprehensive Internet source of MS information. In that role she has been called by Josie Byzek of New Mobility Magazine "the best MS writer on the web."

Inhaltsangabe

"Proceed With Confidence
Be An MS Expert
Put Your Symptoms In Their Place. Make Your Doctor Work For You
Don't Let Treatment Just Happen
Go ""Off-Road"" Responsibly
Be Prepared
Create Health In New Places
Reform Relationships On Your Terms
Cooperate With Your Emotions
Be Your Own Advocate
Get ""In The Mix""
Seek Inspiration."