I don’t do this often enough, so let me try to make up for it now.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for caring about each other in the way that you do–offering each other your compassion, empathy, and support– both in the comboxes here on the blog and in the discussion threads of Group Beyond Blue in Beliefnet’s Community. Thank you for generously sharing your stories, experiences, and insights, as well.
I say this because you help educate, inform, and inspire people you don’t even know about.
How do I know? I often get e-mails on my Beliefnet profile page like this one from Teresa S. I wanted to share it with you because you deserve her thanks and applause just as, or more than I do. All I do is pick the topics and throw it out to you. (Well, and put out the occasional fires–we are the sensitive kind, after all.)
So, again, thank you!

Hi Therese [and Beyond Blue groupies],
Priscilla Warner [whom I interviewing Friday, by the way] put me onto your group and your videos. I’ve been watching and reading…with difficulty. My 25-year-old daughter is bi-polar. We’ve struggled with the depression and anger (type II BPD) for so many years. She finally found a wonderful, fantastic doctor who has helped her really get a handle on everything with great meds, and she’s living a productive life for the first time. It’s so wonderful to see. She’s now working two jobs (both with children, one of which is at a mental health facility working with children and adolescents) and going to school majoring in abnormal developmental psychology.
Now that she has been on meds that don’t numb her (lamictal) she now has a point of reference from which she can explain to us what she’s been feeling all these years. Reading the posts in your group has made me cry and hurt more deeply inside that I thought I could from reading. It put me more closely in touch with her and, as a mother, makes me want to just go enfold her and take it all away. Damn, I’m crying again.
I may not be able to read a lot on a regular basis, but I will as much as I can. It keeps me in touch with her. I am going to let her know your site is here so that she can check it out.
Thank you for being here.
Teresa S