Wallgazer,
Keep coming back. I wish you happy times with your children; they have wonderful life giving energy.
Juls, I have often wondered why no one uses Electro shocks anymore. I was quite young when I worked in the mental asylums. I was assigned patients in various stages of depression and the most severe cases were sent to Electro shocks and I use to accompany them, along with male nurses. It´s under anasthetique, of course. I saw miracles happen. I remember a woman who was sent to us in Paris from Province. She had been depressed, almost in a catathonic state for three decades. She was in bed all the time and had not the energy to commit suicide, although she begged us for a mercy killing. I remember her first day of electro shock. She couldn´t get out of bed and it took five men to tear her off her matress. After her first two shocks I came to work and there she was, looking out of the window and saying to me: "What a nice day." She was cured after 6 sessions and went back, full of energy, to the country.
That was truly amazing. I´m going to find some more on electro shocks.