Dear Murtaza:

No worries regarding the mindfulness exercise I brought up- I didn’t expect you to get excited about it, not at all. I know you need proof before you consider anything. I mentioned it with no expectation whatsoever. I am reading: “I get defensive when I hear any advice..”- better I don’t offer you any advice. (Besides, you already know a lot about a lot of things).

You are trying to diagnose yourself- it seems to me that the depression diagnosis that you did receive is correct, and General Anxiety Disorder seems fitting too, or some other anxiety disorder. I received a few diagnoses in my time but a few of them don’t fit anymore, so diagnoses are not necessarily for life. I’d say that anxiety is in the basis/ the beginning of most of diagnoses of mental disorders.

It is evening here and I am tired, I will reply a bit more to the last part of your recent post when I am back to the computer, in about 13 hours from now. I hope you are sleeping at this time, it being 3:21 am!

anita