Working on new Meds- one family at a time.......

Seems I've had a ton of doctors over the last 18 months, all ready to write me an RX. Don't know if the answer lies in a "secret pill" or a "secret process" even turned to Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture. I was a skeptic at first but shortly amzed how a certain placement of needles could counter balance or re-balance the flow of one's electrolytes and energies. I doubt it no longer. But yet 95% of American medicine is based on an RX. Here at Mayo Clinic I'm learning CBT- Collaborative Behavior Therapy. A process to control your thoughts, thus controling your behaviors and reactions to others and incidents you face. Could be as simple as "deep breathing" or thinking "positive" thoughts before you react or speak. Calming of oneself. Remembering the good in the statement first and not the "what if" or "but". Mayo likes CBT, I'm learning more and more each day. Use CBT when you are anxious, or depressed. I need to use it when I'm chugging along 95 MPH doing my best manic imitation. Set a limit and control the number of things I really need to do. The others will get done in do time. It's peaceful here. There a certain Je'ne ce qua. Just seems that there may be a war in Iraq, the stock market is going to hell but Mayo is just calm and collected and fully expects to come out on the other side unscathed. Don't get me wrong Mayo is not in a time warp, today will still be the All-Star Baseball game at 7pm. John McCain and Barack Obama are feveriuosly fighting over the 10 Electoral votes for November and gas still costs the same (too much) but Rochester Minn is at peace with itself, it's direction and place and presence. Stats in yesterday's Twin Cities Tribune- show Mayo ranked 2nd in most respected Healthcare Facility in US- behind John Hopkins and ahead of UCLA/Med Center. I'm impressed.