Reverett123 ... thanks for sharing that very personal story. I'm sorry for what you've been through!

One interesting pattern that is similar to my mom's is the long period of chronic stress punctuated by an acute stressor or traumatic event. In my mom's case there were years (at least a decade or more) of familial stress followed by the death of her mom, whom she was very close to. Her passing resulted in my mom taking Prozac and Xanax, which immediately preceded her onset of PD.

I'm wondering if the years of chronic stress slowly depeletes your body of critical elements (whatever those are? glutathione? vitamin b's? etc?), and the sudden acute event pushes you over the edge so to speak.

It would be interesting to hear if others had a similar pattern.