- emot/psy

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Are you referring to the impact the liver has on our psyche or the other way

around.

Note: I don't necessarily have the answer, I am trying first to understand

the question because the little I know is mediated through the immune system

where we have a reverse problem than 'normals'.

Patty

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> Hello,

> After years of feeling " under the weather " I was diagnosed with PBC in

> Aug. 2001. This was about 1.5 years after the death of our only

> daughter in a head-on collision in Dec. 1999. She was 17. We are still

> reeling from the shock of her loss and we were at that time already in

> the process of opening our home and heart to another daughter who we

> adopted from China in October of 2001. We were scheduled to be united

> with her originally in September. The first leg of our flight was set

> for the evening of Sept. 11, 2001 just weeks after my biopsy. Needless

> to say our trip was postponed until late October. (I have to admit

> that this story sounds hard to believe, even to me and I & apos;ve lived

> it.) We traveled to Scotland in March (we live in South

> Texas) the week the war on Iraq began. We have friends who wouldn & apos;t

stand

> under a tree with us in a rain storm.

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> Anyway, I & apos;ve really managed to stay in denial since we came home

> from China about my liver, but I was very traumatized with all the

> above. Our new daughter is the light of our lives, but I worry about

> not having the energy for her. I have been very depressed the last six

> months and have begun to feel enormously fatigued. I am comatose by

> the time I get home from work (HS

> teacher) and want to spend time with my child, take of the house, eat

> right, exercise, rest, etc. While I have been basically asymptomatic until

> recently, I am beginning to get cysts in my muscle tissue and experience

the

> fatigue. I also can & apos;t sleep at night. I don & apos;t feel I & apos;m

managing very well

> and have begun to look at early retirement so I can devote myself to my

> daughter and self-care. Financially, it & apos;s not the best choice but

sometimes

> our physical and emotional health come first, right?

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> I & apos;m wondering what your experience has been with depression and

> PBC. Obviously grief is another issue I & apos;m dealing with. I feel

> like I & apos;ve been smashed into a brick wall over and over again and

> I just don & apos;t seem to bounce back like I used to!

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> I pretty much cut to the chase with this introduction. Hope you

> don & apos;t mind. Genie

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