good to hear back from you. i could relate with the bit where you said, "struggling to act normal all their lives... until they finally crack under the pressure of life".

so, PD's. like you say, some docs don't think they exist yet. others do. one of the problems i think people are gonna face when they go to the doc is that the doc is quite likely to just reach for the anti-depressant script. certainly my experience has been that going on these drugs has made my situation worse. intolerable side effects mean i need to come off them but i now have the nasty situation of not being able to stop them because of dire discontinuation effects.

i've reached the conclusion - like a lot of people that have had problems with psychiatric drugs - that capitalism (pharmaceutical companies in this instance) and mental health care are a bad mix. i'm still struggling with seroxat(paxil)

see for example the following for an idea of the problems:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99RWfNVJKlo

if i could do it again, i'd have steered well clear of the drugs on offer.

probably would have tried something natural that's been used for a long long time like st johns wort or rhodiola rosea.