Two months after our divorce, I see my ex-wife in a hospital—and what I learn about her condition leaves me completely shattered

She told me how she had first sought help, then gradually begun depending too heavily on medication when fear grew louder than reason.

“At first, it helped,” she said. “Then the fear kept returning, and I kept trying to quiet it. When one thing stopped working, I looked for another answer.”

I listened with growing shock as she described how alone she continue reading …