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Ivan, >I'm in my 12th year of PD. How do those of you with 10 years of PD. or >more, deal with ACCEPTING PD, Well fellow 12th year veteran that's a good question. Just how do we "ancient mariners" of the PD world accept the fact of our PD. Each of us can only answer for him/herself and it will be interesting to see if there are any recurring elements in the answers you get. These are my strategies: In one sense the question is redundant. As well ask how I accept that I am 6 ft tall, right handed, and short sighted. What is is and time and energy spent bemoaning the fact is time and energy wasted. I have no time or energy to spare so I am very choosy when deciding which battles I will fight. Ones I cannot win don't even get onto the list. (which is not to say I win every battle I fight - but winning must be possible) The second strategy is a close relation to the first. I try to know and accept my limitations. The second part of it is the most important - I do everything I can with the abilities I still have. Third, I try not to fool myself. I know that the cure is years away, (and lets face it we all know that unless we are masters of self deception) I look that fact squarely in the face. I tell myself that what I have now is as good as it gets for the foreseeable future so I had better do the best I can with it. Or to put that another way, I try to keep my hopes for the future within the bounds of possibility, that way I avoid setting myself up for a fall. And last, I follow the oldest advise in the book - take one day at a time. I try to use today's energy to meet today's challenges. There is never quite enough for today's needs. If I have squandered it on fearing tomorrow or regretting yesterday there is even less. I don't always succeed in putting the above into practice, but my success rate is high enough to keep me on a fairly even keel. Dennis +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dennis Greene 48/11 [log in to unmask] http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++