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hi all At 23:53 1999/02/04 -0500, bill wrote: >Dearr Group : You're all missing a simple but major fact, depression >in PD is like any other of symptoms that hit some people worse. >Depression is a natural result of the disease, but it comes with the >disease. Don't feel like you're letting everyone down by not being >Mr. Rogers every morning. You have a right to be depressed, there is >a mourning process to go through when your diagnosed. My doctor once >told me don't let being depresssed make you depressed! >Hope this helps >Bill Harrington 42/ 29/27 you've touched on something i've been mulling about recently [especially in light of the full blue moon syndrome [fbms] that we seem to have developed] pd [parkinsons disease] is a brain chemistry disorder cd [clinical depression] is a brain chemistry disorder related to pd in terms of neurotransmitter function [i think] fact: between 40 and 60% of those with pd get cd also why? because the two disorders are related brain-chemistry-function-wise? do other chronic degenerative diseases [like ms] have the same incidence of cd? fact: depression re diagnosis with a chronic disease is part of the normal grieving process [anger - denial - bargaining - depression - acceptance] but once, or should i say if, someone has gone through all that into acceptance does cd rear its slimey head once again [or over and over again] as the chronic disease progresses? and another thing: how about the emotional excesses of pd? how does that tie in here, if at all? fact: parkies display/express emotions more easily than pre-parkies or non-parkies [e.g. can weep at the drop of a hat] added to which fact: i believe that any strong emotion, positive or negative, can say "vamoose!" to any levodopa in my system and leave me dopamine-deprived virtually instantly and just one more thing - fact: there is a genetic tendency to cd [gtcd] what does that mean if one of those gtcd-ers gets pd? [like me] - a triple [or quadruple - i lost count] cd whammy? okay i'm going back to sleep now janet janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm [log in to unmask]