Name: 【TEDx】What Parkinson's Taught Me | Emma Lawton | TEDxSquareMile
Uploaded: 2017-08-17T16:25:20.000Z
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and just under four years ago, at the age of 29,

I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

I can't control my own slides because my hands are shaking too much,

It's you, that's where I need to look. Thank you.

I'm going to do this every time I need to control it.

I want to talk to you about what Parkinson's has taught me

I was diagnosed just under four years ago

I think it's quite rare for women to get it,

and it's definitely rare for 29-year-old women to get it.

I'd had a strange feeling in my right arm for a long time.

Something that I couldn't pin down to anything in particular.

And it was eventually that my dad said to me,

You need to get this sorted, it's really important'.

and I thought, 'Ooh, we're getting serious now.

This is getting a bit -- it's kind of risky territory'.

'Probably a trapped nerve, or a carpal tunnel at worst'.

I was never thinking anything more serious.

while I was waiting for them they said to me,

it could be Huntington's disease, or it could be Wilson's disease'.

And in the weirdest thing that anyone's probably ever thought,

because the other ones you die from, and I wasn't ready to die.

but it was actually a day that for me was a day of decisiveness,

It was the day where I knew how to move forward

It was also a day that I had my family around me.

We went on a fun family day out that day, because we were all together,

we just thought, 'We're here, let's do something fun'.

And it became the day that I knew where my support network was,

that they were around me, they were there for good to help me.

And every text I got, I got more and more positive in return.

One of my juniors at work sent me a text saying,

'Trust you to get an old person's disease'.

And I thought, 'Great, that's the level we're going for'.

There's 127,000 people currently in the UK living with Parkinson's disease,

But I have been given an opportunity to tell my story countless times,

and I think that's because I put a slant on it

It's definitely easy for people to digest,

but it's also made it easier for me to come to terms with it.

Because ultimately, I was dealt this big, old,

ugly package of Parkinson's and I thought, 'What am I going to do with it?

I've got to find out what to do with it to make my life good,

and make my life strong, and to make decisions for myself'.

I couldn't change what was happening to me.

and that is something that is a massive deal.

If anyone knows anything about Parkinson's,

a chemical which controls temperature, mood, your movements,

the way your brain communicates with every single muscle in your body.

You're fighting a battle against your brain

and actually make it something that works for me and that I enjoy'.

So I'm still dealing with the same thing,

that leads me to positivity and happiness, ultimately.

the ways that I've actually found happiness

So I'm going to share with you my ten ways to find happiness

These are the ten ways that I've looked to what I have as a situation

and made it something that I'm happy and proud of.

you're not going to find anything long-term.

I've looked for it in the form of men on white horses

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