Linda was occasionally anxiously preoccupied with the subject, and like a true big sister she had prescribed everything from exercise and medication to psychoanalysis. But the lines of communication were not really open. When I asked Linda how serious her sister had ever been about suicide (Had Claire ever made a plan?), Linda was not sure. Nor did she know what Claire’s own perspective was on her depression, what efforts she had made to solve it, and what she had found helpful or not.
