Good to hear from you, Debbie

Allow me to be your "womensa" or your sympathetic manchild. I have to be careful, though. I heard schizos like to make up new words. So let me be clear, "womensa" does not exist in any dictionary on earth that I am aware of. However, if Jean-Paul Sartre was right when he wrote, in "Being and Nothingness" that our body is a conscious structure of our consciousness AND Dr. Stanislav Grof is correct when he writes in "The Holotropic Mind" that purely biological and esp. purely brain-induced consciousness is simply western superstition at best then pleasse allow me to assert the christian-romantic theory (my theory but i think its christian or judeo-christian romantic) that both "woman" and "man" are essentially ideas and great ones to be sure, in which case neither is experientially transcendant to the other even though there is an understandable appropriation of specific experience due more, in my opinion, to the edicts of lawful (in nature and culture) personhood; ie you are in a different "place" than I am else what's consciousness for in the first place, no?

Wow. There is a lot there. LOL

Anyway, I just wanted to extend my sympathies and wishes of a quick recovery whatever be the nature of the hospital stay you mentioned.

Do you know, Debbie, I write  like that to ease my own emotional stresses so I rarely ask to be excused for such long winded and oft eccentric intellectual forays, but I do have a sense of humor about it.

I am doing well, though. I go to group therapy for general anxiety once a week and it is good for me. I see a doctor (with dad in tow) this week to look into matters schizophrenic and it also looks like what a doctor diagnosed as rather neglible M.S. about 10-12 years ago may, in fact be causing me fatique and lethargy and the like so join me in a big UGH there. But the reason I seem so cheeful is largely due to the one most clear fact of my life of living hell, and that is that up until about 1 month ago, I knew nothing of anything of this, so I am quite thankful to God every day, and, besides, you and I know how truly insane everbody is, right? :-)

Btw, if you find that story hard to read, that is perfectly understandable. But since you have expressed some interest in looking at it, if only in part, I would love to hear any comments you may have. Only good ones a first, then you can ease me into the "constructive" ones if you like.

Could you remind me where you live when you write back? I live on the soutwest coast of canada near Vancouver. Its nice to know the area I think.

Til some other time,

Landon