Judith, .with all due respect. To call someone poisoned like this a "misery guts" looking for attention is possibly one of the worst things you could ever suggest to someone suffering like this. I realise how it can come across, but unless you have been poisoned mentally by a toxin (mercury especially), you will have aboslutely no conception of the total hell on earth it is.

I have been through it, so I know it well and the alteration of the person's mind and personality and outlook is profound. The very fact some are even on this forum is commendable. The very fact some even get up out of bed is commendable.

This type of illness can cause direct suicidal urges on the brain. Many take their own lives. They are far from negative or self pitying, I call them heroic. If I had not been through it (or going through it), I wonder whether I'd have the same attitude?

Russ, no offense, I know your post was intended to lift some spirits and give a little humor. But you know as I do, what this poison can do! No explanation necessary to those that have been through it.