Yeah Graeme1988, just saw your post now, so condolensces mate. I was temporarily in "good spirits" yesterday. But my own personal death has put an adrupt end to that - althought am still drinking (again), so nout changed there!. Although i guess it pales in comparison (but not to me!), I just found out today that my parents cat died over xmas. I had no idea. His brother died about 2 years previously. So that's hit me like a tonne'o'bricks, hence am on the grog again today/now. One less "friend" of very very few i have in this life. Broke down about 1/2hr ago. Good s**t. Playing my most pain-outletting hard/haevy music. It's times like these that i get a sense of really how emotionally destitute & empty & lacking my life really is. And realizing the grand mighty myth of: The Greate Lie/Deception of Permanence (or The Great Deciever). It all seems like it will last forever. Am finding it real hard to overcome this believe. And a key part of my person is that i get EXTREMELY attached to things, the status quo, and can't never let go, and cannot comprehnd or "take in" hardly any changes at all. Which is why such things as death of a pet throews me for six. I don't react anywhere near the in the same way, if even say a relative passes. Perhaps due to my inability to "connect" with people as i do with animals, insects, nature, and physcolgical concepts. You hang in there aeh? One step in front of the next.