dear cyber-dad-don yes, yes, yes!!! my experience with clinical depression and learning to recognise 'automatic negative thinking' have both given me some kind of 'early warning system radar' when it comes to negativity or 'catastrophizing' or 'awfulizing' the general trend of all media seems to be 'if it ain't horrible, it ain't real news' which is why i post most of the news articles that i do i now demand equal rights for optimism! which is one of the reasons i think of pd as a gift to me with love sis janet paterson 50-9 / sinemet-selegiline-prozac almonte-ontario-canada / [log in to unmask]