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greetings to my cyber-siblings i apologise in advance for the length of this i just couldn't help it! i got into a mull yesterday and last night in response to several recent messages both public and personal so this is a 'melded' response to all and maybe a little background for our many new members who might be wondering why the heck i'm posting all the time there has been some discussion recently on causes of pd including a lot of interest and response about head traumas as well as stress one of you wrote: >...extreme stress....can "take you over the top" and cause >...any underlying pathology to show its ugly head.... i can relate this to a neuro describing my 'epileptic' tendency [which only shows up as a 'faint' when i get an injection or other medical 'assault'] as my simply having a 'lower' threshold than the norm...? our emotions are a strong, maybe the strongest component, of what differentiates humans from other animals our bio/body/bags [!] comprise a blend of varying levels of chemicals and chemical producing bio-factories that act individually or in tandem in reaction to our experiences and/or our emotional responses to those experiences a classic situation: i can be 'run-down' and ripe for catching a cold or flu etc but if i'm 'hyped-up' about a deadline or an exciting project my adrenaline level [or whatever] can keep the threatening virus at bay but as soon as the pressure is off and i get a chance to relax the virus jumps in in his book 'the road less traveled' scott peck originally stated "life is difficult" he later adjusted it to "life is complex" e.g. number one in my research/digging/archyology on menopause and female hormone changes i thought i'd be looking at maybe two hormones but noooo! there are at least five and they all change levels throughout the menstrual cycle in response to cues from various glands and in response to each other not very easy to analyze and not very easy to attribute specific causes and effects e.g. number two my first introduction to 'real' curry was a mind opener the recipe called for 12 different spices as i opened each one i wallowed in its unique aroma and then tossed it in a pan with a little oil to saute as the heat penetrated, the aroma changed and developed as i added each subsequent spice to the growing mixture the aroma changed and grew amazingly the whole became much more than the individual parts > ...is convinced the stress in 1995... CAUSED her pd... >... desperately trying to figure out what caused their MS.... >... if it could have been prevented or if they had done something wrong... >... believes it was triggered by a traumatic incident... >... who...hasn't experienced trauma, injury, great emotional loss... if our curiosity about the cause of our [apparent] afflictions whatever they are leads only to 'why me?' and 'where can i blame this?' then we are stagnating if our curiosity about the cause of our [apparent] afflictions whatever they are leads to learning and understanding and knowledge even if unrelated or 'accidental' or 'serendipitous' then we are growing i am convinced that everything happens to us for a reason that we are here to work at learning and growing not 'just to have [transient] fun' or [transient] happiness the tricky and grace-filled part here is that if we follow our passions, our instincts, and discover where our intended work is it can full-fill us with joy this is all related to my immediate personal situation [moving back to canada after moving to bermuda from toronto 16 years ago]: i, who have never even met another parkie yet, have been invited to the ottawa parkie group christmas party [!] if they are ready for it i am! as a result i started mulling about what it would have been like to have always lived in canada and always had the [easy] access to medical care, support groups etc i've been thinking i could easily have been a whiner and could have taken it all for granted since the traumas to which i attribute my pd occurred in the first few months here i have started to think if i hadn't come to bermuda i might not have gotten pd [so that's where the blame lies!] but if i hadn't gotten pd in bermuda with its isle-olation i would not have learned how important 'family' is on all sorts of levels and then i wouldn't be here now following this new found passion of mine writing about sharing and learning with all of you this is all just hypothetical of course 'if' and 'could have' and 'would have' have no bearing on real time which brings me to the thanks i've received from so many of you for my contributions to the list my semi-officially unemployed state over the past few months has given me the time for indulging my love of writing and thus giving voice to my 'news-hound' instinct in digging out real medical news and developments of interest and giving voice to my 'all the facts and data in one pot' instinct in contributing to our ever growing permanent archives of every message ever posted to the list and giving voice to my new found 'empathic' [?] instinct in sharing my own experiences in the hope that they might benefit others and giving voice to the feisty/spunky one inside me who cannot abide mis-information and lazy ignorance when it comes to understanding and coping with our 'affliction' after i make the move to canada before the end of this month my writing time might be more limited but i wouldn't count on it! i take great pleasure and satisfaction in doing what i'm doing and if it's of any benefit to anyone else i'm doubly blessed there! i just had to get all that off my chest! now back to packing... your cyber-sis all mulled out janet janet [log in to unmask]