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The fact of suffering from the Parkinson's disease disturbs much.
How can I learn how to accept it? It is normal to have bitter
feelings when it is learned that one suffers from the Parkinson's
disease. You will feel at the beginning a whole range of emotions
such as anger, sadness, culpability and anxiety. The reactions vary
from a person to another. Some are folded up on themselves, fleeing
even the presence of their best friends and forsaking their
activities. Others launch out in great projects to prove itself with
themselves, like with the others, that their life will not be
affected.

You should not have shame to feel you frustrated by the disease. This
reaction is completely natural when it is a question of accepting a
chronic disease being able to restrict your normal activities in the
long run. To be closed again on oneself or to try to deny these
feelings will do nothing but worsen the situation. To rather try to
analyze your feelings while discussing with your spouse, a expensive
friend, another person afflicted with the Parkinson's disease or a
professional of health.

It takes time to accept the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. It will
also take you time to adapt you to the changes which your body
undergoes and to learn how to live with this disease. You can
facilitate the task while gradually trying to adopt a new attitude
vis-a-vis the life and by not requiring too much of yourself.





Mon Mar 3, 2003 9:29 pm

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