Re: "Hope works like a drug". Indeed it does, and neurologists have a responsibility to hold this out to PD folks, not in a phony way, but reality based. Just as hope works like a drug, hopelessness projected by "experts" works like a drag, adding to the burden PD people already carry every day of their lives. Educate your neurologist beyond the science they learn in medical school. My wife is a young-onset PWP. I am a chaplain in a hospital setting, and often hope is where, and how, we live, at home and at work. Stephen G. Fisher ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn