I'm so sorry, Fuzzy. I have had my fair share of extreme misery and tremendous frustration with doctors - and pdocs!...well, a few are decent folk; plenty are loonier than any patient there ever was. Honestly, I don't think that one country is any different than another country. Even finding a pdoc here is extremely difficult; when one does find a pdoc, the pdoc is often gone within a few months because the health care system is so messed up. It's a crisis at this point, the state of mental health care.

No one thinks cruel doctors are funny. I certainly don't!! No, I honestly believe that Candy meant something that I often forget, which is to try my hardest not to take every bit of life quite so hard - as is my tendency to do.

For example, I have a clear memory of my first stay IP. When I left the hospital and went home I recall telling myself that the incident that caused me to go into hospital wasn't as serious as I had taken it to be. No, it was not funny...it's just that I could have taken the incident with a bit of levity. But my depression didn't allow for it. Had I not let everything and everyone slam into my very soul, I would have suffered much less and been able to make healthier choices.

To this day, I wish I had developed a better ability to see the comedy, or lighter side, of some situations. I have not been able to do so at all, and I truly believe that it's to my loss. Just a thought I have as this thread caught my eye.