Q: I was widowed after 43 years in mid-2007. Since this time I have found that I am bored, likely depressed, and feeling rather useless. My norm before this time was accomplishing things, and being busy. I find that my motivation level is almost nil and that my desire to keep things up is really [...]

Q: Seven months ago my husband and I miscarried an unplanned pregnancy. It was a life-changing experience for me in that I really found out what it was I wanted to do with my life. I want to be a mom again. My husband doesn’t feel that way. I am 42, and I feel stuck. [...]

Q: Is it typical that an expert marksman/avid hunter would shoot themselves in the chest with a 20 gauge shotgun to commit suicide, much less is it physically possible? A: To determine if the situation is typical, I’ll need to assume the individual is a male. Under that assumption, men typically commit suicide using firearms [...]

Q: I know a woman who wants to control her dad. It’s been three years since her mother passed away. She is not a happy person and it seems like she doesn’t want him to be happy. She tries to keep everybody away from him. He had a girlfriend and had been so happy until [...]

Q: I am 49 now. About 12 years ago, I went through a traumatic experience: my little brother committed suicide, 6 months later my Mom died from breast cancer, and 2 months after that my Dad committed suicide. I also lost my first Aunt and Uncle during this time — five funerals in 10 months. [...]

Q: I’m 31 years old and married. Life was cool, but since the death of my father things have changed a lot. I live a bit far from my parents’ house and I used to go there every 3 months. I had planned to go to my parents’ place one week later, but he died [...]

Q: My partner and I met a few years ago when he was separated. He was working abroad and I was living in my home country. We both have had families in the past. I have a teenage daughter, but her father died in a car accident when I was pregnant. My partner has two [...]