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hi all kathrynne holden wrote, in part: >Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 06:48:13 -0400 >P.S. I have changed the subject line so you wouldn't delete. >I agree -- I have heard offline from two listmembers who >state the constant posts on suicide and CD have put thoughts >in their minds that weren't there before. They were not >positive thoughts.... we are uncomfortable with a lot of things but ignoring them doesn't make them go away the us surgeon general thinks the subject of my posts is worthy of a great deal of attention it occurs to me based on my own experience that anyone who is not suffering with a cd mood disorder would be able to read anything about the subject without getting depressed and on the other hand that anyone who is uncomfortable with the subject or 'can't bear' to think about it is likely suffering with it in re the listmembers who contacted you maybe the act of talking to you about their negative thoughts is one of their first acts of opening up and acknowledging their feelings if so, they have taken the first step to recovery when a lot, if not most, of us finally received the diagnosis of pd we felt a sense of relief, even though nothing had changed, that our bodies were not falling apart that it wasn't something worse etc etc etc when i realized that my sour feelings and the world i had made were due to cd i felt a similar rush of relief, even though nothing had changed, that there was a reason behind the pain that i wasn't going insane [whatever that is] janet janet paterson 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/" email: "[log in to unmask]" smail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada