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hi camilla you and joan co-wrote: >Joan wrote: SNIPPED >>The thing that really bothers me the most, & I've never >>admitted this to anyone is the way my brain works: I used >>to (had to) be a juggler-I could juggle 20 thoughts and not >>drop one! Now, it seems that since I can only perform one >>function at a time-& it requires all of my concentration; that >>I can only think of one thing at a time. > >This is a true Parkie "blessing", Joan-- I've read on this list >that PWPs can only do one thing at a time, and I find this >true for Peter also. It is hard for YOU and probably also for >your family to accept and live with this-- and maybe if you >"reframe" it as "focusing" it helps a little -- but it's still scary >and frustrating---anyway, it IS "PD normal", FWIW. joan, i have never been able to juggle thoughts in the way that you describe neither has my sister [non-pd] maybe it's a genetic trait? e.g. if my desk / work area / kitchen is messy, the visual distraction has always impacted my concentration e.g. any sounds at all, conversations, music, etc distract me from thinking and concentrating this [mental] quality has not changed in me since getting pd camilla, in re not being able to *do* more than one thing at a time this applies to me when my meds aren't in sync and i am 'off' i think that a good part of the cause here is that as a movement disorder, pd suddenly changes 'the rules' about so-called 'automatic' movements thus, walking becomes a task for the conscious part of the brain where it normally would be taken care of automatically or unconsciously this [physical] quality is the most pronounced symptom i have your cyber-sis janet http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm 51/10 - almonte/ontario/canada - [log in to unmask] janet paterson