Here we are at another Friday which means it is time for more about Parkinson’s this week we are looking at depression.
Depression is very common with Parkinson’s suffers; I have suffered from depression long before I had Parkinson’s but will admit it has gotten worse over the last few years.
Many feel in the year stages of this disease a vague feeling of nervous irritability as if things are just not right. In some serve depression will set in with feelings of guilt, weepiness, lack of energy and even suicidal thoughts. I have experienced all these symptoms in the days before I had medication and, in the days, before I was told I had it. According to this book this reaction is not caused by the horror of being told you have Parkinson’s but is in fact part of the disease.
In fact, even though the physical response to treat is good, the mental condition often horrible and can get worse once treatment starts.
Patients need to let their doctor know what is going on with their mental health, so they can recommend suitable measures to deal with it. Many people don’t like to admit there is a problem with how they are feeling and will just think to themselves that they need to get a grip and pull themselves together which isn’t going to happen. In fact, the symptoms described nearly always have a medical cause which can be treated.
Those with Parkinson’s need to remember that the disease has
messed with our brains, electrics no longer work as freely as
they should, our wiring has been interfered with.
Things may be better if one gets up dressed eat breakfast and
have some kind if plan for the day. Mixing with other people
is good as isolation isn’t good.
More to come next week.
joannerambling 
Dearest Jo-Anne,
Isolation is never good—for none of us!
Still feel sad about so many elderly that got deprived from seeing their loved ones during the COVID period. That surely killed several of them!
Very good information and one can prepare a little better for life with this dreaded disease.
Hugs,
Mariette
I agree it isn’t nice to feel isolated from people, I remember my great-aunt who lived alone would get meals on wheels just so she would see someone each week, that was before my mum started to go out each Wednesday to do some housework and shopping for her.
Sweet Mum!