Dear Alisa:

I am sorry for your loss of a close friend.

“she seemed to improve. Making plans, cleaning her house by herself. She booked a holiday with me for next month. She sent me the details last week… She called me overjoyed. She made plans with people to go places.. she made amends with her ex boyfriend and they were getting back together. She was happy, and told me life was finally smiling to her…who books a holiday, does groceries, puts her food in the frig and then hangs herself?”

– it is not easy to hope, for a person otherwise depressed and defeated, to hold all that excitement in for long, to look forward to a better  life. It can be overwhelming to endure that optimistic excitement, it can get too much. There is a saying: all in moderation. Even excitement has to be in moderation.

People get overwhelmed with emotions and excitement of any kind, be it fear or anger or that optimistic looking forward excitement, these can not be endured for long, a person needs down time.

Does this make sense to you?

anita