hi dennis
you wrote:
>Onward to your next tangent oh "curious" one
>(should I call you Alice?).
you can call me alice
you can call me janet
you can call me giannetta
just don't call me late for dinner
[sorry, it must be goofy time]
and then you wrote:
>Janet, the operative word here is suspect. I have no
>figures or studies to quote. I do have a destinct impression,
>formed from 10 years of talking to PWP, carers and neuros,
>that there is an assumption that PWP are unhappy (and
>therefore, depressed). This seems to be based on the
>undeniable fact that with our mask faces we look unhappy.
interesting
you've been in this game 10 years to my 9
but your experience has been that much 'richer' in a sense
since i have had no exposure to other parkies, carers, support groups etc
i have mentioned before
that i suspect that my pd is probably head trauma and/or pesticide related
which might account for
a lot of the secondary symptoms which do not manifest in me:
specifically in this context 'the classic pd mask face'
so that didn't occur to me as a factor as you describe
i suppose my hyper awareness of cd
is much more oriented, based on my actual experience,
toward its underdiagnosis in society in general
rather than its manifestation in parkies
>With the incidence of CD within PD already so high (up to 50%)
>it is easy enough to assume that the sad looking, apparently
>demotivated ("doesn't seem to initiate anything") individual in
>front of you is part of the 50%. When you consider that, here
>in Australia, the average GP will have at most 2-3 patients with
>PD, they don't get much exposure to the naunces of the condition.
i hate to think of our medicos
either underdiagnosing it or overdiagnosing it
my understanding is that simple tests like
the beck depression inventory are accurate and definitive guides
i hope your suspicion is wrong;
otherwise it seems that medications might be prescribed unnecessarily
>.... I know CD from the outside. I know it is real and I know what
>it can do. Thank God I have never had it, and hopefully, never will
in a sense, all of you have witnessed my emergence from
the cd pit in june, when i started 'communicating' again
i mentioned in one of my 'perceptions' posts
that i thought dealing with cd was a tougher battle for me than pd
i still feel that way
>I have however felt great sadness because of PD.
>I have mourned for the might have beens,
>cried for the should have beens.
>I have raged against the injustice,
>the pure and simple unfairness of it all.
i have never been able to drum up
that kind of anger or resentment against either cd or pd
i don't know why
but i am starting to realize that i may have been interpreting
anyone else's anger or resentment, temporary or long-term,
as something to 'be fixed' or as an 'obvious' sign of cd
hmmmm...
another case of 'my way or the highway" thinking?
if i don't feel any resentment, you 'shouldn't' either?
hmmmm...
whew
nothing like a quibble or two
to clear out some old cobwebs, no?
thanks, dennis
your cyber-sis
alice/pollyanna/janet [!]
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