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I believe that depression is prevalant in PWP's. Let's face it. Imagine what they have to look forward to. Yes, PWP's can vacillate between depression and happy times. Hopefully, more happy times than not. We cg's suffer from it as well, because we watch our loved ones go through what they go through. All of us, whether PWP or CG, must fight with all the strength we have to keep each other "up", and to fight fatigue and sadness. This is why this group is so very, very important. Someone wrote about dementia in PD's. Yes,the mental acuity demishes somewhat, but most of the time the intelligent, articulate, loving person is trapped inside a body that no longer functions as it once did, and the frustrations and anger causes the PWP to react differently than they normally would. When I lurk, I read some notes and can tell when a person is "up" and some when they are "down". In my years of counselling, I learned to hear what a client doesn't say, as much as what they did say, and the same thing with reading the postings . This is a wonderful group of caring people, and to those with PWP? Keep posting, we like to know what's going on, whether its your meds, your feelings, or your doctors, and post when you are up and when you are down. We're all "listening. Jo Ann from Houston