jo ann it is always frustrating when one's personal and very real experiences dont resonate with anothers i think depression is a very individual and personal matter within the broad medical definition each of us is very different with very different support systems, different medical support, different reactions to lifes vagaries and very different personalities *sometimes* and i stress only sometimes posters dont seem to understand and give regard to individual differences......this is so of every aspect of life and the list is just one small microcosm of life so i guess we do rather well on the whole in almost every instance of need i have found the list wonderful it is invaluable and its posters full of pertinent and helpful advice judy >From: Jo Ann Coen <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: AN "OUTSIDER'S" VIEW OF DEPRESSION / not my meaning >Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:32:42 EDT > >Chuck - thank you, thank you, thank you. Some people are so stupidly >narrow minded, they can't see beyond the end of their noses (no names >mentioned) Please write me on a personal basis, so we can discuss this >further. Jo Ann from Houston Jac694@ juno 2Com ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com