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As individuals began to crowd our Parkie List with their personal sad stories of a terribly stressful time and/or incident in their life which they felt may or may not have contributed to their initial onset of PD, I found myself saying, "Wait a minute.. *I* had something really awful happen just as the PD symptoms made themself known...." In preperation to emailing it to the PD Group, I sat down to write about it and suddenly couldn't type a word. It struck me that I'd fallen into a trap... a "compendium of woes & miseries trap." A trap where I'd end up reliving a long ago stressful and miserable time in my life, when THAT was not the goal of this thing we're participating in. To recount in terrible agonizing detail a tragic personal event, while perhaps cathartic to whom the story belongs, is depressing to many of those who read this list for informational purposes, and is conducive to many of the REST of us to begin wallowing in self-pity for events in our own past, and again.. is NOT the goal of what we're participating in. The ONLY thing needed from you and I is a "Yes... there was a terribly tramautic event at about the time the first PD symptoms showed up," or a "Nope... no particular stress seemed to bring on my PD symtpoms." I believe, WE are becoming bogged down in heaps of tales of woes and miseries and have almost forgotten our main goal. Respectfully, Barb Mallut, [log in to unmask]