g with physical symptoms, multiple sclerosis can bring on many mental changes to a person.Multiple sclerosis brings on many problems to the mental capabilities of a patient. Multiple sclerosis can force a person to go through psychological changes that can be devastating to a person’s life. These changes can totally alter a patient’s personality, thereby causing problems throughout even a patient’s family. These changes and cognitive impairments can make a family feel as if they do not even know their loved one any longer. These symptoms may be seen from the outside, but the real damage is taking place inside a patient’s body and mind. These devastating effects are enough to make any person’s jaw drop.The harmful effects multiple sclerosis has on a patient can be degenerating and irreversible. Multiple sclerosis can tear a family apart, just as the way the disease destroys a patient’s body. The disease is a heartless machine that will crush anything that gets in its way. The immune system is usually the first victim of the wrath of this horrifying disease.Multiple sclerosis is a disease that deteriorates a patient’s muscular and immune systems. Multiple sclerosis is an auto-immune disease where cells use their weapons against the myelin sheath, T-cells that protect our immune system, and destroy them. Effects like this leave 30 percent of victims bound to a wheelchair after fighting the disease for twenty years. In addition to damaging the physical aspects of a person’s life, multiple sclerosis also attacks a patient’s brain. The disease actually severs nerve fibers in the brain, and that causes irreversible damage. This damage may cause a patient memory loss, the loss of cognitive skills, and even change a patient’s personality. With these mental and physical changes, a patient’s normal family life may be changed around, and problems may be caused.Multip...
