LIVING WITH DEPRESSION AND POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

Thanks Maureen, I do remember being horrified at the the thought of Regan becoming President, and how absurd I thought that was, but my mind is a complete blank when it comes to women's rights. That probably was the year I spent a lot of time avoiding going into the office as much as possible because Sal Licata was President of the record company. I seem to remember a fixation with soap operas. Sal's method of running the company was to divide and rule. And while I didn't know that at the time, Chrysalis was my "family" and it was falling apart just as my own family had; almost birth through adolescence. At the moment I am battling depression and post traumatic stress disorder. The depression in part due to taking antibiotics for an ear infection and I have to see a ENT doc to sort that out, and have procrastinated about this for I don't know how long and I don't particularly know why. I have finally pin pointed the start date of the increase in ptsd. It has gathered in momentum since I was rear ended on September 9th at 1:25 pm by a 2 ton Continental Navigator and looking right to the traffic light on the corner of Curson and Beverly Boulevard heading west to see my psychiatrists. Anyway, the ptsd reached such a point that I was a human yo yo, one minute laughing at myself; and the next almost suicidal. I was going to go to a clinic for what I originally thought was 30 days, but found out that it was a 3 month commitment and couldn't arrange a place for my boyfriend to be close to me there. And now I stop because I am sitting here with so many thoughts running through my head again. I have not put anything on Facebook today because of the Texas fires. I don't know why, but I thought it insensitive to do so. However, I would very much like to use your email first thing in the morning pm Facebook. If you prefer to reman anonymous, I can exclude your name. Anyway, I still have to find out how to get 25 friends to join the page, and am finding the instructions on how to do this practically incomprehensible. I am not sure whether this is deliberate so that I pay for an ad or what. I may well challenge FB again, as I have done previously; when they removed posts I started putting the era issue on there. Their executive board has only one woman on it. I am tweeting ERA fairly regularly and may do that after I understand more about the Texas fires. I also intend to find out how many women died in the 9/11 disaster. And that would also be a day to calculate how much money was lost since I know the AIDs LA office closed that day. I didn't know about the disaster, because I was having another period of not listening to or watching the news, because I personally find the news here so skewed. I do remember wondering why the streets were so deserted on my way to the office and on seeing a note on the door; that the office was closed and thought that a member of staff had died. But I knocked on the door anyway, and there was someone there and he told me what had happened and I thought he was joking. Sadly; is an inadequate adverb; he was watching the news because he had a friend who worked at the World Trade Centre. I think that was the only time I have ever watched the news all day, because it was simply unbelievable; and I could not comprehend how evil people can be. Anyway, I have rambled on enough. Please let me know if it's okay to put your company's actions regarding ERA. It occurs to me that there would have been more women working in the publishing company in exec positions, than the record company?? Also I think Chuck had left by then and Lance was in charge? My lawyer wanted me to interview for Lance's job, but I decided I couldn't because Lance was a friend and he deserved the job. And I'm an still kicking myself for not accepting Joe Smith's offer to start the publishing companies for Electra/Asylum/Nonesuch. My loyalty was not rewarded. I'd love to see you again soon? Ann 323 461 1722