How does MS make you feel?

Join in our new campaign this MS Awareness week!

Here at MS-UK we are really excited to share with you that for the first time ever, we have been working on a joint MS Awareness Week campaign with all the multiple sclerosis (MS) charities - Shift.MS, MS Trust, MS Society, Overcoming MS, MS Together and the Multiple Sclerosis National Therapy Centers.

The theme for this year’s MS Awareness Week, taking place 24-30 April, is mental health, because of the huge impact a diagnosis of MS can have.

Use the hashtag

So we decided to create a social media campaign called #MSMakesMe and we are inviting all of the MS community to share the #MSMakesMe hashtag with a description of how MS makes you feel on social media all throughout MS Awareness Week. This could be #MSMakesMe sad, #MSMakesMe laugh, or #MSMakesMe brave, for example. I can be anything. We would like you to share a different word each day with a picture of yourself to show just how differently MS affects everyone. And it doesn’t stop at you – why not invite your partner, friends and family members to do the same, highlighting how MS doesn’t just affect you, but everyone around you, too?

We are also working with a celebrity MSer who has kindly given up some of her time to help promote the campaign UK-wide for us during MS Awareness Week - watch this space!

How you can help

We are collecting #MSMakesMe stories to share throughout MS Awareness Week on our blog and social media to raise awareness of MS. So, if you would like to write a short 300-500 word piece about how MS makes you feel, we would love to hear from you. Please email your story and a picture or two of yourself to NewPathways@ms-uk.org. We look forward to hearing from you!