It was like a shotgun going off in my face when a noted psychiatrist told me that my son will likely suffer the same fate as did my wife. Both my beloved wife, Debbie, of 23 years and my father-in-law committed suicide. He struggled with severe depression and in 1978 fatally overdosed on medications to escape his suffering. Then, sixteen years later, my wife Debbie succumbed to the same fate of suicide.
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