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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chewbaxter" data-source="post: 1301857" data-attributes="member: 67079">Cheers for sharing all that info there Binocularface... I quote the above in order to throw in a few common heard comments:"What have you got to be depressed about?""You'd know about it if you had my problems!""You're just being soft!""Pull yourself together!"True classics from the ignorant which certainly do nothing to help... often a lack of insight is to blame, and even the FEAR of Mental Health... it certainly trivialises that which is a MAJOR cause of ill health (I'm sure it's No. 2 in the U.K. following Back Pain).Anyhow... as to the stress caused re: IDing... I'm not all that 'intense' when it comes to birding I have to say... and I STILL have problems over the "Willow or Marsh Tit" that I see (open yer beak and sing ye b*gger - I can't tell the difference!).What do I do?Ah well... I'm more interested in just seeing birds than 'ticking' (although I do enjoy putting a new tick in on seeing a 'Lifer') - so ANY bird is okay by me.I don't think I'd ever consider twitching... just the thought of it brings me out in a cold sweat... no, I'll stick with mooching with the bins and going it hides with the 'scope - I'm not all that adventurous, but I know what I like!:t:Neil.</blockquote>