It isn’t very likely that this collapse will come at a time that still allows for some clear thinking, or clear and heartfelt talk among the people who love each other, but it should. This is what I mean by courage. It takes a towering courage in the face of everything that passes for love and compassion and mental health to stop trying. It takes more courage still, or maybe a different, more discerning kind, to stop trying before someone is addled by symptoms and drugs and side effects and cold sweats and twenty-two hours a day in bed and night terrors about what is to become of him or her.
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