Please remember as you age, the past demylenation adds up and compounds which usually creates some level of smoldering neuroinflamation. The damage is there no matter where your lesions are located. Stress creates anxiety and that increases the inflamation that is already and always present with MS. I am 62 and I am starting to not be able to tell if a new symptom is aging or just an increase in a symptom I have had for decades or a new lesion. The worst thing that happens is me trying to keep up with conversations and forgetting stuff and trying to fix it out loud. I get frustrated and angry with myself and miss the experience I am having right now. Now I let it go and my life has improved immensely. Once my good friend and I were celebrating his 60 th birthday and I had just fallen walking into the restroom. I mean I ate it bad. Didnt lift my foot enough on that top step and lost my balance andd shot like a bullet head first into the door opening it and ending up barely hitting my head on the sink. No one saw or knew it happened. Later when I had trouble with some steps my friend reached out his hand and I was so pissed at myself I denied the help and sulked. The next morning I apologized and said to him I am sorry that I was embarrassed and dissapointed in myself that I didnt accept his beautiful gesture so we both could experience that beautiful exchange between two souls helping each other as humans. It changed my life. I experience life now and right now I am experiencing being 62 with MS and a bunch of other stuff. No rules or expectations just experience the right now...good or bad.

My old doctor said yes. He was an MS doctor since the 60's. He passed away a little while back. But he did say the lesions on the brain can directly change how we are doing and feel.

Oh my gosh you guys. Thank you for your help on this. I have asked my doctors and psychiatrist guy and no one seems to have a clear answer except for "that is possible"
I have done the CBT and DBT which I have to get back into some so that is a good idea. I need to try and relearn some and I have a book on those therapies too. I am also on a lower dose of Effexor but I don't feel meds help me plus I don't trust them, UGH.
I have always had some anxiety but this is way too much. The reason I ask is because I learned that the fear center of the brain is connected to ones anxiety of course, and there are scars in the center of my brain as well as other areas, so I would not be shocked if that could be connected to why many of us struggle with this anxiety/depression. I am just so curious about this. Thanks guys.

i agree with Danny i to have had some recent anxiety of the extreme nature i think mostly my work situation at the moment compiled by ms and some personal stuff within my family as well as some past stuff that's come to light. so i pray you find some answers God bless

Karona, do you think the anxiety has a root cause (emotional, situational, etc).

Regardless, the MS can be *the culprit partially. I wonder if it comes down to multiple factors.

Tam had a good idea of CBT - cognitive behavior therapy or talk therapy.

My wife take’s lorazepam and it helps her. However, the med is not reaching places in her emotional base.

My wife has experienced some junk in her past including a very rigid religious upbringing. She is still processing that.

Maybe start with general practitioner and see if the talk therapy is a good possibility?

All the best to you my friend!