Originally Posted by Kyras

Does crying help? It does for me, at least temporarily.

Originally Posted by boltonblue

True depression in the clinical sense is scary.
A few months after my dad died I was visiting at my uncles, i.e. his oldest brother.
After I left, he put his hunting rifle in his mouth and squeezed the trigger.
Fortunately the angle was canted to the side and the bullet exited above his left ear. He lost an eye but survived.
He had been describing a cart he wanted to build and I had asked challenging questions about it.
I've lived with the nagging question, of did I provoke him somehow ever since.