@Soupe du jour I hope you find ways to a appreciate the season change there! For me, Autumn and Spring are nice season temperature wise. I consider them the high-low end of the same season sometimes. Summer is very hot, but I don't spend much time out in it, only to walk this year; and winters are what kill me. Unless there is snow -- everything is just cold and dead. I am not a fan of winter coming. I'm sure you'll enjoy your trip.

Do many of you use religion/prayer to help with symptoms? I have found church going and prayer to be beneficial for me i the past ... but I am almost known to be a little weird about it. I did once almost upend my life to become a priest, or more debt by getting a second masters degree in something I'd never even use (Catechetics). I also should point out while I've never had any psychosis -- my sister's psychosis is all religious based. I know being religious is not a problem or a *warning sign* but recently I've had a lots of thoughts about going back to church and praying a lot. Because of my past actions, I'm a bit leery of the idea. Just curious if anyone here finds help in their belief system.

Also, just a werid note -- I put my DNA SNPs through one of those health/risk assessment things. Turns out, I have a higher risk of a lot of things, and many I have. [I mean, some genetic markers are closely linked to a disease, while others not so much..] So, when it said I have a very high risk for Amblyopia-- which I have, i wasn't surprised. But the psychiatric ones were interesting. Again, risk factors and genetics are not indications you have it, nor are they concrete but may be "suggestive"; but recurrent depression was high, anorexia was high (which is odd, I'm curious the study behind the link to those genes), PTSD was very high, and some others (Schizophrenia and a personality disorder was an above-average risk). Oddly, the bipolar affect was a bit of a lower risk than average.

Again, I'm not reading too much into this, I just think it's interesting they have studies that have at least some association between genetics and these issues figured out. It's not surprising a lot of the high risk issues are things I do deal with.

EDIT: and just a fun thing -- the service does this: "all your trait-associated SNPs are combined to create a truly unique piece of art in the style of Wassily Kandisky". I personally found it kinda cool and decided to use the image as my avatar here.