--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@...> wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Peter wrote: > > >> Sal, I never saw her experience as being related to her brain tumor. > > Pete, I never said it did~~I said it as being related to her > depression. Not just related, actually~~but the "awakening" > (so-called) being simply a prolonged case of depression that > went undiagnosed.
FWIW, a couple of years before I started TM, I was diagnosed with full-blown clinical depression (which fortunately lifted after about a year). Nothing in my experience of what it was like to be depressed resonates even *faintly* with her descriptions. Couldn't possibly have been more different, except in that it was very unpleasant.