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Creativity poll 4: if you are either MORE or LESS creative, which of the following best describes you?

JonStamford•11 years ago•69 Voters

Please select one:

Less than two years post diagnosis and more creativeLess than two years post diagnosis and less creativeBetween two and four years post diagnosis and more creativeBetween two and four years post diagnosis and less creativeBetween four and seven years post diagnosis and more creativeBetween four and seven years post diagnosis and less creativeMore than seven years post diagnosis and more creativeMore than seven years post diagnosis and less creative

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Lindylanka11 years ago

The fact is the longer you have PD the more difficult life becomes, and your time gets used on doing all the little things you once thought inconsequential. The net result is less time to do enjoyable things, though when you do PD disappears from your mind as you switch into a creative mode of being.

shasha11 years ago

I AGEE 0 LIFE IS JUST SO DIFFICULT AND MY HANDS DONT WORK AS WELL - SO EVEN IF I DECIDED THAT I WANTED TO DRAW OR PAINT AGAIN - I COULDNT

Kansasue• in reply toshasha10 years ago

I disagree ,myself got on meds for PD my tremors stomped was aback with my artwork and card making.

jillannf611 years ago

I HAVE PSP AND HAVE JOINED A CHOIR TO SING AND MAKE MUSIC WIHT LIEK MINDED LADIES- IT IS FO REM A GREAT WAY FO KEEPIGN IN TOUCH WITH LIVE MUSIC AS I CNA NO LONGER GE TTO CONCERTS

IT IS GOOD A SIT SLOWS MME DOWN AADN IS SV ENJOYABLE ON A SOCIAL LEVEL TOO

LOL jiLL

JennyR11 years ago

Having PD limited many of the hobbies I have enjoyed, so I have pursued new ways to accomplish the same thing. I can no longer knit with needles, so I revised patterns to use on a peg board and they look no different I can't garden squatting or bending over, so I either sit on the ground or stretch out on a tarp to plant and weed. I also read more. There are a host of things to do in a reclining position. this also keeps the brain working.

honeycombe311 years ago

Whilst agreeing with all the above I feel that my creativity has not decreased but that it has diversified. I was never very good with my hands but chugged along with activities expected of females my age- sewing, knitting, gardening etc.Though not conscious of being expected to reach a standard I believe that self-doubt about my abilities probably led to stress. At present I feel motivation or lack of it is the source of any such stress. Once the initial impetus fired by an adrenalin rush gives way to inertia I rarely finish a (once exciting) project. Though there is no imperative to do so this still causes stress. I seem to have lost the pleasure of doing things for pleasure. It's as though every activity which takes precious time must be purposeful, that it can't be .....well, that it can't just be. Does this make sense?

ram92711 years ago

DX in 07 wrote a book that is being published this week' memoirs of a rotor head' my story of life and Vietnam and agent orange

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