hi dennis you wrote: >Perhaps I misunderstood John, but I take the sentence >> >Dennis, in many (if not most) cases, the knowledge >> >that one has clinical depression (CD) comes well >> >before the diagnoses of of PD. >to mean that "in most" cases of PD, CD is present prior >to the diagnosis of PD. aaahhh, the light dawns! i took john's phrase "in many [if not most] cases" to refer ONLY to that 40-50% contingent of parkies who DO have cd and not to ALL parkies [the world of difference that you point out] you WERE seeing green [!] and i WAS seeing orange gosh, if we have this much trouble with english how on earth do people with english as a second language cope? now for yet another small tangent: why do you suspect that cd is overdiagnosed in pd? i have always been curious about wanting to know how and why things and people work as i get older, i just get 'curiouser and curiouser' ! your sibbling in qurious quibbling janet janet [log in to unmask]