Lady W,

I so identify with your post; you certainly have not lost your ability to communicate. My story is very much like yours, except that I am 8 years down the road.

We have to learn to live differently, be much gentler with ourselves, and marshall our energies as well as we can.

I found that once the false dawns stopped happening, and I had a sense of what I could and couldn't achieve, then life improved. The biggest thing for me was losing the fear of failure, and all that 'keeping up' stuff, and accepting myself as I am.

There is life after a breakdown, and it can be OK.

Good thoughts and good luck,

Myzen