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Janet, Do you know the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Snow Queen? At its opening, some imps from Hell are flying over the Earth holding a hideous mirror that makes everything it reflects look ugly. By accident they drop it and it shatters into a million tiny fragments. Some of them lodge in people's eyes and these poor mortals can no longer see beauty in anything. Everything they see is distorted into ugliness. What you call the glums, I think of as mirror vision...those days when one only sees the laundry, the bills, the frustrations, the losses, one's own limitations and inadequacies. It's a nasty thing to go through. It passes, and that is a comfort, but really only after the fact. As you point out, intellectually knowing that the negative thoughts are tainted doesn't necessarily dispel them. So hang in, Janet. Watch a video, put on some music, distract yourself. Your bathroom will get repaired, your dust bunnies will disappear, your laundry will get done. Your vision will clear and you'll be your perky self once more. It's the waiting it out that is hard. Thinking of you, Kathleen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn