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Ronald F. Vetter wrote: > > Nancy Perry and numerous others including me have mulled over the toxic > environmental exposure as cause theoretical postulated rather than genetic. > The studies by many have been inconclusive. There are some significant > statistical correlations and some family genetic defects. > > Upon noting many of us recalling personally traumatic periods just before > symptoms (Nancy's husband must have been very apprehensive about prostate > cancer surgery) and I was very depressed following the automobile killing > my daughter. > > Perhaps PD and AD (my mother developed symptoms during her depression > occasioned by the death of my father due to infection complications > following concurrent ulcer and bypass surgery post his heart attack) and > other neural net (brain) diseases are correlatable to (brought on - > manifested by) sustained mental anguish/depression. Zero zest for life or > suicidal feelings may trigger cognitive apoptosis of the whole neural > network. The brain's immune system in depression state for too long may > self-destruct in one of these dis-ease syndromes. Forgetting the > unpleasant emotional woes that cognition is occupied with may induce > forgetting - loss of short term memory is manifest after the brain has > been attempting to suppress memory of bad emotional events and/or emotional > fear about the future. > > ron 1936, dz PD 1984 > Ronald F. Vetter <[log in to unmask]> > http://www1.ridgecrest.ca.us/~rfvetter/ Could this be the placebo effect. The mind affecting the body in a positive/ negative way? To some degree this is certainly possible just consider the adrenaline rush that occurs when we get frightened. Why is this effect considered a nuisance? Is it possible that PD patients are more able to control there physical systems and when depression sets in we self destruct? Why don't we learn how to control and/or develop this ability so we can use it to improve our health? I have been depressed prior and during the evolution of my PD, but never considered it to be self destructive. What a paradigm shift! mike