[pserwylo]

I'm not sure why you've been down voted. I didn't intend for my post to say that talking to friends or colleagues is a replacement for professional help, just that any extra help is a positive, especially when people might have a tendency to feel isolated.

[PhasmaFelis]

Don't worry, I think you expressed yourself clearly. I was just responding to the other folks who seemed to be explicitly saying that you only needed one of [support network/psych professional] and that the other was useless.

As for the downvote, I'm pretty sure Xenophanes or one of his buddies is stalking me. After my first post disagreeing with him, everything I've posted in this thread has gotten a single downvote within five minutes, and then climbed back up later. No worries. :)