Hi again Janet, You wrote: > but i don't think there has been a blanket statement anywhere > saying that pd means one 'automatically' has cd You are of course quite right, the studies all indicate 40-50% as you mentioned elsewhere in your posting. My comment refered to depression related postings to the list, I should have made that clear. Now as to your tangent :)) In a sense it is not a tangent: You speak of: > the responses (to CD postings) i have received have been > 99.9% positive and reinforcing which ties in with my perception that most CD related postings speak as if PD and CD are inseperable. It would be interesting to know the gender percentages within each group (ie those of us with and those without CD). I speculate that it will be a 50-50 split in each group. If it isn't than surely some factor other than PD is at work. Dennis ************************************************* Dennis Greene 48/10 [log in to unmask] http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ **************************************************