Hi There:I'm incurably myopic. And my glasses aren't helping (despite their thickness). Anytime my IBS takes a turn for the worse I can't seem to look at my problems in perspective. I can see their current effect on me (e.g. I think I'm dying) but it's hard for me to see them for what they are: little obstacles on a path which, more often than not, is well-cleared.Am I alone? Maybe I should promise myself to not get worked up about anything 'till I've given it a couple days (and so avoid jumping to wildly irrational conclusions). I don't know. Luckily my myopia works both ways: when things are going good I can't imagine that they'll ever take a turn for the worse. (But then they do and ...)Gastron