(((Xie))) We care...this family forum cares. We've spent years holding each other up...granted it's hard to feel the hugs through a computer screen but they are there and they are heart felt.

Iris Boltons words always flood back at me....

"I have not mentioned the stage called depression - the English poets called it melancholia - because it is really more of a constant companion, lurking within your psyche for days and then springing like a wolf at your throat because of some slight, or the breaking of a shoe lace or even the stubbing of a toe. Its lease on its lair in your subconscious can endure for years. Its antidote, I learned, is contact with people who care."

I like to say that the black hole has sides...you just can't always see them. If you looked up from that blackness you'd see arms reaching down to help you to your feet.

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Quote from My Son, ..My Son by Iris Bolton