Hi folks.  Interesting day today. I went to a meeting of Mr elephant's impaired lung function support group. they needed prtnersand spouses because numbers have been really down and they had a speaker coming. He was from the Regional Men's Health Innitiative and he hasd some very interesting things to say - particularly about mental health and the need to TALK . He also spoke about the diference between clinical depression and normal situational distress. 

I found that very enlightening, because I have long believed that nowadays we are encouraged to believe that we are not capable of coping with the 'slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" and need experts to treat us and 'cure' us. Remember the birth scene in  Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life where the woman in labour asks the doctors surrounding her what she should do and is told "Nothing, dear, you're not qualified.'