text:  They're very reluctant to discuss it in the open. You know, it's just a family thing, and they're the butt of jokes. Yes, I know. But they know that I've been through those things, and so they confide in me. And then when they find out they're not alone in the world, that there are a lot of people with these same symptoms, then that's very reassuring to them. Now, the first time I ever heard about it, and each of these things I get into is rather reluctantly. You know, I'm a scientist, and so I have this skepticism sort of built in.