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Marling, You wrote: > I am becoming exhausted > from fighting it, from the shaking, from the contractions of muscles. > How do I fight the exhaustion??I am tired. Just plain tired. Marling, the truth as I see it is that you don't fight it. Save the fighting for battles you can win (you know - things like finding the answers to Life, the Universe and Everything or maybe resolving 3rd World debt). The only response that works for me is to ignore what my body imposes on me for as long as I can, laugh at what is happening to me when I can no longer ignore it, and then give in to anger, frustration, tears, whatever, on those rare occassions when I see the joke as being in bad taste. With a bit of effort I have found that it is possible to alternate between the ignore and laugh modes most of the time, with only very occassional forays into anger etc. By way of clarifying the above, by ignore I mean ignore what PD is doing to you, not deny that you have it. In practical terms this means do what you want to do and don't worry how well it gets done. If the outcome of what you are doing MUST be of a higher quality than you are now capable of achieving, acknowledge that fact and move on. Call it a strategic withdrawal if you like, I prefer to see it as living life as fully as is practical, just as I did before PD. I mean even before I got PD I didn't spend my time fighting to do things beyond my physical ability. Dennis. ************************************************** Dennis Greene 48/11 [log in to unmask] http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ **************************************************