Good point, and one I hadn't thought of. I tease my pdoc about being a relentless Pollyanna -- if there are 14 pitch-black rainclouds overhead, he'll find the ONE beam of sunlight that nobody else can see. I don't know if he took a class to learn that! :-) or if it's just his natural disposition. I *do* know he took a serious dive after having to put me in the hospital this past winter -- it took me the better part of a month to convince him that it wasn't all his fault. He had a horrible case of the shoulda/coulda's and was really beating himself up for the stuff he thought he did wrong that got me to that point. I didn't realize shrinks had low self-esteem days! :-)


Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. -- Albert Camus