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Roswitha S.

Roswitha S. notices from small changes that something has changed in her, but cannot interpret the symptoms. In 2004, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and started a square dance class with her husband shortly afterwards. She finds the dancing extremely helpful in relation to the Parkinson's disease. At the time of the interview, she had been living with the disease for sixteen years. In 2017, she started Deep Brain Stimulation therapy. In the time before treatment, she was very unwell and sees Deep Brain Stimulation as a last resort. At the time of the interview, the surgery was seven years ago. Even before receiving the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, Roswitha S. had quit her job as a biology teacher. Age at the time of diagnosis: 52 Treatment: Deep brain stimulation

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Explain oneself

Roswitha S. addresses her illness when she has the impression that others are wondering what is wrong with her.

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Interviewer: Have you encountered problems with other people? Roswitha S.: No, not really, because I communicate frequently. So [...] you can see that people observe you very well and then people notice that something is wrong with this person, that he has something. And then I just say, "I have Parkinson's." And then people often don't know what it is, but they are then satisfied to a certain extent, they notice, "aha, there's something going on that I don't understand." Then you are less excluded.

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