LONELINESS, SOCIAL ISOLATION, ESTRANGEMENT AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE

[beehive23]

LONELINESS, SOCIAL ISOLATION, ESTRANGEMENT AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE

April 25, 2018

"The single biggest predictor of rate of Parkinson's progression is if you answer true to 'are you lonely'?"

outthinkingparkinsons.com/a...

[2011rav]

Yes. Very lonely since wife died in 2016. Living alone.

[Johnboy46]

Wife still alive but doesn't get "it". Whether she is in denial , doesn't care , I don't know. She has never been with me to hospital appointments, including MRI, and when I got my diagnosis. When I told everyone I had PD she was the only one that didn't give me a hug, including bar staff in my local pub. If I say I have another symptom of PD i.e. loss of balance, loss of smell etc, "it's old age" .

[beehive23 in reply to Johnboy46]

Damn.......im sorry to hear that. Try to hang tough......