After over forty years of treatment for depression, I am not at all impressed with the state of the art today. We still are guinea pigs who try this, that and the next thing until something seems to work. If it does help, often no one knows why.

One psychiatrist summed up my experience this way. "You are too arrogant to listen, too stubborn to believe you can get better and too foolish not to give up and die." Nonetheless, these same professionals in due course have never once said they can help me get better.

I have learned from all of them. I am alive because of what I learned from them. But, as it should be, I am able to function better because of what I put together from the paid talkers who never seemed to agree on anything.