Hi, O.K., here's the quick list of what hit me over the last five years...
and my Idiopathic PN started two and a half years ago:
Aug 01 Dad diagnosed with Lung Cancer
Oct 01 Got Married
Oct 01 Graduated College w/Masters Degree
Nov 01 Bought House
Dec 01 Dad passes with Lung cancer
Apr 02 Laid off from Job
Aug 02 Daughter who is 15 announces she is pregnant
Aug 02 Turned 40 years old
Sep 02 Daughter moves back in after living with her dad for the summer
Oct 02 Daughter can't keep food down, losing weight from pregnancy, hospitalized. Husband stressing because daughter is sick and I'm not working yet. New house mortgage is expensive.
Nov 02 Husband works from home in his office. I interrupt him and find him looking at pictures of naked pregnant women. EEEEuuuuuwwwww! Big Fight!
Dec 02 First Christmas without my Dad, other daughter and her BF come to spend it with us in new house. All is well. Girls go to visit their dad and I call my mom who lives in St. Louis. (My mom and dad divorced when I was 3)
Feb 03 Start making plans for mom to come visit when the baby is born. Daughter is hospitalized again due to her inability to keep food down. Homeschooling her and she is dehydrated and very sick. Husband is very impatient with my attention to her and the baby.
Mar 03 Painting the guest room and getting it ready for mom to stay in when she comes to visit in April. Calling her to confirm plans and she does not return calls. Not like her.
End of Mar 03, Mom committs suicide. (we think, it might be murder) I am on a plane to St. Louis to deal with the legalities and estate. I'm oldest and only girl.
Apr 03 Daughter is scheduled to have C-Section and deliver baby 1 month early due to complications and breach presentation. Baby is delivered 4/15/03 and is hospitalized for 5 days then released.
July 03 Husband and daughter have horrible fight and husband makes daughter and baby leave and go live at her fathers house.
August 03 I take the opportunity (still not working) to go back to my mothers house to further investigate her death and deal with pack the family heirlooms for my brothers and myself as her husband didn't know what to do with them.
Nov 03Upon return, find out that my new husband had decided to file for divorce from me on the grounds that I am not giving him enough sex and not enough "attention" at this point I say, good riddens because I can't be bothered with someone who is so needy!
Dec 03Move into a friends house who's mother has also passed away recently (family friends) who we have been friends with for over 20 years. I go back to work at a retail store just to make enough money to pay the rent while I find an appropriate job. I need to be near my kids.
Jan 04My son, whom I gave up for adoption at the age of 16 has found me and we are now back in touch. We have established communication via email and phone. We agree to meet at Disneyland in April.
Apr 04 My daughters, Granddaughter and I rent a Minivan and go to Disneyland for four days and meet my son and new daughter in law. We all have a great weekend. It's the baby's birthday and everyone gets along great.
May 04Mom's 60th Birthday, It's a hard week. I really sink into a depression. It's all starting to hit me. I am working at a $10.00 an hour job, renting a room, my children are no longer living with me, I am divorced, my parents are both passed away, and I have nothing to look forward to.
June 04 My brother offers me a job at his business running the office while he runs the field. We form a partnership and we are off and running.
July 04I find my 18 year old daughter smoking methamphetamines in the house and selling stolen property out of the garage. I tell her she has to leave the home, and I move out also. I can't have her friends coming around a home that I am renting a room from and causing problems. I starting renting a cottage from my brother and tell my daughter she can't come around as long as she is involved in drugs.
October04 My ex-husband wants me to come back and try and work things out. I move back in. (Now that I am working at a full time "regular" job again, he thinks I'm worth keeping).
January 06I sink into a deep deep depression and find myself hospitalized for three days. I am now on serious anti-depressants and home from work for one week. Again, my husband realizes he can't handle the "emotions" of a woman who has lost her mother and children, so he asks me to leave again.
April 06My brother and I decide it's time for us to part ways, we have very different "business styles" and to preserve our relationship as brother and sister, I decide to move back into the corporate world.
I am now working back in the High tech industry, HOWEVER,,, because I came back in through a "temp" agency, I wasn't hired on permanent until August. Soooo that means my Family Medical Leave won't be activated until February, so I'll have to hang in there for that.

But, on the other hand... I have heard through other boards that PN is aggravated by stress. Do you think it can be CAUSED by stress? How about by an EX husband?