PD Revelation

We PD recoverers have to fight every day against the medical establishment dogma that holds Parkinson's to be incurable.

Why not just ignore it? Well, that can be easier said than done. Consider this from JH (SOP, 2022, p. 100):

From the very beginning of my Parkinson’s research I have seen that people who have not yet been given a diagnosis – even if their symptoms are fairly severe – might recover very quickly, within one or two sessions of working with me.

Contrariwise, she explains, those who've come to her having received a diagnosis from a medical professional might need years to turn off pause.

Explaining this is the observation that “When a person with a strong ability to focus [JF: such as someone capable of self-induced pause] is told that they have an incurable illness, that suggestion is very likely to take on the strength of a hypnotic suggestion.”

In other words, that proclamation involved in a PD diagnosis, involving the seemingly authoritative though misinformed assertion that there is no cure, carries a lot of weight — far too much weight — coming, as it does, from someone held to be in a position of authority. For many, it can be hard to get out from under that weight.

And it doesn't stop there. That “authoritative” proclamation can influence the observations and expectations of those with whom we interact, perhaps not to the degree of a hypnotic suggestion, but still...

I'm not quite sure to what extent that proclamation has affected my own recovery, but I've been aware from the start that I have to push past that dogma to succeed. How have I endeavored to do that? How might you? Topics for another post.