Well... although I kicked around the mental health system where I live for around 15 years or so before I finally kissed it all good-bye, I never did receive anything in the way of a diagnosis. I suppose there was something written down somewhere for insurance purposes... probably depression. But it really wasn't based on anything of any consequence... just something to plug into the appropriate box in order to get paid.

I often wish I had been given a genuine diagnosis... not that it would have made any real difference in the whole scheme of things. But it would have been nice to have something to hang my hat on, so to speak... something I could perhaps lean on to explain all of the confusion & ugliness of my life. If nothing else it would have given me a basis for knowing which forum to post in here on PC!

Anyway... it's all water over the dam now. Yet I still find myself, from time-to-time, musing over the possibility of finally being able to come to an understanding with regard to what it was all about. (Desperately Seeking Sigmund Freud)