Bill Harshaw's "My Second Life"

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This paper summarizes the book "My Second Life" including the author's thesis,. The author discusses the symptoms of Parkinson's as Harshaw had them and analyzes chronic disease such as Parkinson's. The paper includes developmental tasks for the family members and issues such as stigma.

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"Bill Harshaw has lived with Parkinson's disease for 20 years. He was diagnosed at midlife during the stage which Erikson terms generativity, "the need to be useful as a human being, partner and mentor to another generation" (CFAM, p. 111). The overall objective of this paper is to show that he lost his usefulness entirely, and also lost all control over his life. He was in the same position as the frail elderly. However, he recovered his sense of self and his usefulness. What he could not regain, he came to accept."

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