TerryL - Thanks for the suggestion. I don't want to disparage any form of help because I think there is always someone for who any type of help works. It so happens that I am so skeptical of any alternative forms of treatment for myself that I don't think there is much of a chance. I just don't believe in things like acupuncture. (for me) If someone says it helps them, then I believe it is good for them.

Maybe that is because of my training as a nurse. Then, again, there are lots and lots of nurses who believe in all kinds of alternative medicine.

I am very secluded from normal human contact. I've been that way all my life. I think I am alone to a degree that is just not healthy. I am more alone now than when I was younger. I think the only remedy is for me to be willing to come out of my shell. I don't think there is anything that can make an unhealthy degree of aloneness okay . . . for anyone. My S.O. has been gone for a week and will be gone out of town for another two weeks. That is part of what is hard on me at the moment.