Be like this young man
In RFP (2020) Janice Walton-Hadlock (JWH) describes a young man she saw who had very early but clear symptoms of Parkinson's. With him she witnessed one of the fastest recoveries she's ever seen. On his first visit to her office, shortly after describing to him the technique of talking to an “invisible friend”:
He closed his eyes and I could see that he was silently engaged with someone. He began to smile gently. A shudder ran over his body. His Parkinson’s symptoms ceased, never to return. Right there in my office (p. 118).
Also:
[T]his patient started having recovery symptoms almost immediately. He exhibited a bout of the infant-like facial spasms of recovery within twenty minutes of turning off pause, while he was still there in my office....
Within just a few days he found himself grabbing his previously atrophied, now burning, aching biceps, in a fruitless effort to prevent the new, automatic arm swings...
What really impressed me in reading about about this young man was this:
He also had long forced himself to keep a positive, trusting outlook even as he found himself increasingly inclined to be wary and non-trusting. He had constantly, actively, fought with and rejected the wary and increasingly dominant voice in his mind (p. 133).
Contributing then to his super-fast recovery was his conscious resistance to giving into the wariness and negativity he could feel intruding as early elements the Parkinson's personality. Inspired in part by his success, I have worked myself to resist elements of the Parkinson's personality (see RFP, 2020, chap. 16) and to nurture traits it causes to be underdeveloped.
If you're on pause, I recommend doing the same. It just might help! If you rarely ever cry, try nurturing your ability to do so. If you tend to be cynical, try instead to be more receptive and accepting. If your time is regimented, try to be a little more carefree. Let yourself be a little late for something. Loosen up. And like the young man described, try to be more trusting and to let go of the wariness and vigilance. Find those elements of the Parkinson's personality that describe you and see if you can soften them. Be like that young man!