How Our Approach to Living With Parkinson's Changes as It Gets Harder
About this episode
The episode discusses how relationships with Parkinson's evolve over time, exploring various coping strategies and personal narratives.
In this episode of the Parkinson's Podcast Unfiltered, the group is joined by a special guest to respond to a listener's question about how their relationship with Parkinson's has changed over time. Together, they talk through the different ways they have named and understood Parkinson's since diagnosis, including ideas of fighting, endurance, acceptance, and daily negotiation. The conversation moves between personal stories, practical coping strategies, and reflections on how identity, energy, and priorities shift as symptoms progress. Rather than settling on one way of framing Parkinson's, the episode explores how those frames evolve. Sign up for updates on webinars, events, and resources for the Parkinson's community: https://dpf.org/newsletter-signup Learn more about the Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinsons's: https://dpf.org
Topics covered
- Parkinson's disease
- coping strategies
- identity
- symptom progression
- personal stories
Keywords
- Parkinson's
- coping
- identity
- symptoms
- acceptance
- endurance
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Davis Phinney Foundation
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