(((((Jim Writer & Family))))) You’re whole family has my complete sympathy. The medications have helped me a great deal, but I really know how your wife feels. I know the illogical but very real fear of anything and everything very well. I try so hard to keep things in check, I fight to keep it from affecting my kids. My daughter is a psych major in college so she understands a bit of what I’m going through, on the other hand she’s only 18 and can forget to call. I know it doesn’t make any sense, but if she doesn’t call when she’s supposed to I KNOW she’s dead in a ditch somewhere.

I know my family has a hard time understanding my fears. I know that staying home all the time is just as foreign to them as just getting in the car to go for no reason is to me.