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Originally Posted by cochrankat
A thought spurred by seeing how the ball on ECT/PD fell between the psychiatrists and the neurologists:
The longer I live with PD, the more I think that to term it a "movement disorder" is limiting and misleading. PD affects everything, including cognition and mood. The sooner we all admit that, the sooner we can break out of the box our fragmented, competitive system of health care and medical specialties has put us in.
Kathleen
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Kathleen,
I have thought about this too. It's nice that you've mentioned it here. Whenever I've had to explain to someone that it's more than just the stiff ness and tremor they look at me like I'm werid. I have to explain to them that it affects the whole body including the plumbing to put it lightly. They seem to understand once I explain that it's all about slowing down and stiffening up.
John