appealed
the denial of LTD benefits, and, on July 6, 1995, he forwarded a
report by Edmonds' therapist Catherine Thomsen. Ms. Thomsen
recounted what she had observed during seven years of treating
Edmonds and the incidents that led up to Edmonds leaving work.
Thomsen continued:

          As time went on in 1993 and 1994, Mrs. Edmonds became
          increasingly despondent as the tension with her boss magni-
          fied in scope. She began to experience serious sleep distur-
          bances, sometimes not sleeping for days at a time. When she
          did sleep,   vous breakdown if she did not stop working at the time. She
        remains unstable but is able to minimally function having
        been able to distance herself from the trauma she experi-
        enced with her manager. She feels very humiliated by these
        incidents at work and let down by her co-workers who were
        told to stay away from her. To this day when we discuss her
        returning, she becomes inconsolable.
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7 Of course, she had a lawyer in her discrimination suit against Hughes,
but the "independent