Dear Moomin:

As a child, did you have any reason to suspect that your mother will not come back from work? I don’t have any reason to think that your mother said or did any of the following, but I am asking anyway:

Did she complain to you that she works very hard outside the home, that the work is hard on her body and is causing her to get sick?

Did she ever talk about wanting to die or wanting to cause herself harm?

Was she clearly at times depressed, withdrawn, in bed for many hours in her room?

Any such thing??

anita