This MS Awareness Week (24-30 April), the MS Society is focusing on promoting mental wellbeing among people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) and encouraging them to share their experience of the condition with the hashtag #MSMakesMe.

Scotland has one of the highest rates per head of population of MS in the world, with around 15,500 people living with the condition. MS is a neurological condition that can cause a range of often fluctuating physical and cognitive symptoms, which impact the way people move and feel.

Commenting on his support for the week, Martin Whitfield MSP said: 

“I welcome this year’s MS Awareness Week and its focus on promoting mental wellbeing among people living with MS.
“The MS Society is encouraging people living with MS to share their experience of the condition with the hashtag #MSMakesMe to help raise awareness and understanding of how the condition impacts every aspect of people’s lives, but especially their mental wellbeing.
“This is a great way of highlighting awareness of MS and I encourage constituents across South Scotland who are living with MS to get involved during the week and share their own experience of the condition.”
Find out more about MS Awareness Week at www.mssociety.org.uk/get-involved/ms-awareness-week

You will note there are three attachments to this email. These are pictures and a gif to mark MS Awareness Week. We would be grateful if you would consider posting one or more of these as part of social media posts and including our social media hashtag #MSMakesMe as part of our campaign to raise awareness of MS. On Twitter you can tag the MS Society Scotland on @mssocietyscot.