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Parkinson’s Apathy: When You Want to Do Something but Just Can’t Start
You know what you should be doing.
Take your medication.
Go for a walk.
Answer that message.
Get out of the chair.
And it’s not that you don’t want to do it.
There’s just... nothing.
No push. No urgency. No spark telling your brain, “This matters. Get moving.”
That experience has a name, and for many people living with Parkinson’s, it may be apathy.
In this episode of Living with Parkinson’s: The Good, the Bad, and the Reality, I talk about one of the most misunderstood non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s and what it actually feels like from the inside.
We talk about:
• What Parkinson’s apathy…
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