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Janet, I just read Paige's website. If this is the person she showed the world it is impossible to see any cd in the person it revealed. I do agree that cd is the most under diagnosed and untreated chronic illness that we have. It has a stigma attached to it as if it is something that could be stopped by sheer will power if one but tried. So many uninformed see the word depression as shameful and something to be hidden away in the privacy of one's home. I heard that from my husband to "not tell anyone because they would think I was crazy." What silence and denial does is only further isolate the already sad and alone depressed person. It is time to bring it out into the light of day to examine it for what it is; for the incredible pain it brings into the lives of those who suffer from it. To recognize that it is little different than to say I have any other treatable illness. It too has solutions for most of us. To suffer alone is more than Paige must been able to tolerate any longer. What warmth she left, and how much more she would have been able to give if she had but sought as much help for her cd as she did her pd. * seattle* audrey friend of pwp aussie John 49/42/38?