Sonia experienced waves of shame and depression after her father’s death. I asked her how she avoided falling as low as she had in the 1970s. All she knew was that something in her was determined to avoid that depth of despair. She would tell herself that she could feel depressed, angry, and low but that she couldn’t stay forever in that place. She would come close to it, but this time, she had the memory of having been there before. She told herself—this would be temporary.
