I met two friends for dinner a few nights ago and we immediately dispensed with the niceties and got down to the real stuff, in the way that friends straddling both sides of 50 often do.
Deb and her family have endured a tremendously painful two years. Her oldest daughter struggles with anxiety and depression and was harming herself. The family sought and found treatment and, as so many of us tend to do, kept their pain a secret from their community of friends.
Until they didn’t.