Dear Dr. Buckingham, I am having a hard time dealing with my wife’s emotional instability over the past three months, especially considering the recent suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. She appears to be depressed because she loss her mother in January of this year and was laid off from her job in April. I believe that she lost her job because she could not focus or … [Read more...]
Depression: Do You Know What to Do When it Impacts Your Family?
Sobbing uncontrollably, I found myself in a space that I never thought I would enter. I was at a loss and completely confused about what happened to my own mother. How could she be in such despair? After raising two happy, healthy kids, how could she be filled with so much pain? I struggled to write this. Not because I am uncomfortable sharing, but because I respect my … [Read more...]