I wanted to reply to you, Perna because of your tagline. I wanted to tell you that one of the things I have done is give myself permission not to act on everything I worry about (and instead to say, okay, I've worried about this and now I will stop and go do something else) and further, not to worry about a lot of things I used to be inclined to worry about (which was almost everything), so, since I don't worry about some things anymore, I no longer feel that pressure to act on them either. One of the things I have experienced and internalized over time is the societal notion (strongly directed at women, in my opinion) that we must be happy all the time, that our happiness is totally within our control, that it is a personal failing if we are not happy 24/7, and all people who aren't aggressively upbeat, positive, cheerful and successful are to be summarily thrown aside like so much garbage--if not verbally abused and then obviously shunned so as to feel the punishment before being cast aside first. I had no positive role model growing up and consequently encountered a lot of negative feedback because I literally did not know how to behave around other people. Stir that into my tendency to be a worrier and I was an anxiety-riddled mess convinced I wasn't even entitled to live, let alone be happy. But God kept me living, and when I worked from that--that I was supposed to live, as a starting point, I started actively trying to figure out how to be happy, and I started trying to figure that out by first trying to get rid of what made me unhappy. I think now I am in a stage of evaluation. I'm still going to mention it to my doctor(s). Thanks for replying.