Almost everyone has heard of the placebo effect. Up to 40 % of the impact of medication is based on this, only strangely enough this effect is hardly taken into account/ hardly used. Purely be installing expectations the effect of medication can be influenced. Both positively (placebo) and negatively (nocebo)speaking. Expectations thus influence largely the […]
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Parkinson Amplifiers?
This text was intended to go about stress until someone mentioned something on a meeting at the Dutch Parkinson Association. What triggered me was a broken finger of somebody and the amplifying effect of it on his Parkinson symptoms. He asked us who had experienced the same. Now I am just recovering from neuralgic amyotrophy […]
Body and mind separated?
Last week I listened to an interview with Bas Bloem, a neurologist, on the Dutch radio about the development of health care. The main topic was active participation of patients in this process. The discussion was about care innovation. The focus is being put on the patient and the people surrounding hem/her more and more. […]
Coping with Parkinson’s? Or Living With parkinson’s?
“What you give attention grows” a statement used by many coaches. And most parents know this too. If a child falls and you focus all attention on the pain, a child will be sadder than in the situation that, after the initial shock, you shift the attention to something else (something nice). In my experience […]
Reinventing my goal in life
In 1989 I started to work as consultant. Being educated as a chemist I started with advising on chemical waste, waste in general and waste prevention. Gradually I focussed more and more on laws and regulations about this topic and started managing other people busy with observing the compliance of the waste regulations. And together […]
Do you hear me?
Over a year ago I was in a training (regarding effective communication). Each time I made a comment or I asked question there was no response. Frustrating! Now was it a multi-day training so the experience came back a few times and I became more and more irritated. What I had to say made sence […]
Accepting Parkinson’s?
The last blog Koen posted is about acceptance of Parkinson (and not all consequences). A nice article and how did this work for me. Did I accept Parkinson’s? Should I accept Parkinson? Will or will I have to accept Parkinson. I really looked for my relationship with Parkinson’s. Is it something that is beyond me, […]