Clive~ i'm all too familiar with what you are talking about. what i found to be helpful is to focus on recovery of skills and competencies to the exclusion of all else, worry about nothing else... life will continue, bad things will happen, and if we pay attention to all the other "Stuff" in our lives, we will never have time to regain our coherency. if it's of interest to you, i also used meditation and a relatively obscure technology called CenterPointe. you can google it, or there is a post about 2 months old in the Alternative Therapies forum. best wishes,, Gus