Dennis wrote: ........Having PD does not mean you automatically have CD. I would suspect that at some point everyone diagnosed with PD feels sad. How could we not. ..................... Dennis, in many (if not most) cases, the knowledge that one has clinical depression (CD) comes well before the diagnoses of of PD. CD is often used as a marker for the onset of PD even though the diagnoses of PD is years later. Peace, John