same thing here. Not health problems but quilting lets me keep my sanity. Three years ago dh had either his midlife crisis or just a mental breakdown. Either way it changed our lives drastically. I had hard decisions to make. I started quilting a year ago and can't stop. Depression meds kept me out of a dark hole but that was it. Quilting gives me a purpose. I still have 4 kids to get up and out of the house and I imagine I will be quilting for a long time to come. When I'm working on a quilt for just a little while I can forget everything else. I can forget the money issues we have, I can stop worrying about the kids and dh, and just concentrate on my quilt. And at the end of it i ahve something special. Plus I feel a connection with other women who lived before. I sit there making the quilt and I think that countless women before me have probably used quilting to soothe themselves too......it just makes me feel a little better to know I'm not the only one in these shoes.