December 1, 2021 by NextTribe Editors · Health

Did Menopause Make Her Do It? A Widower Whose Wife Committed Suicide Thinks So

A devastated husband--on a mission to bring attention to mental health, depression and menopause--thinks his wife might be alive still if she'd gotten treatment.

David Salmon thinks the combination was fatal. Menopause and COVID anxiety together was too much for his wife, who took her own life last year during lockdown at the age of 56. He's speaking out now to help prevent other families from experiencing such a loss.

"We need to talk about it and make people aware. It's the mental side of it, not just the physical side," Salmon, from West Yorkshire, England, told the BBC. "The physical side of symptoms you might see, but the mental ones, no."

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Making new friends after 50 is a challenge. Here’s how Meredith Maran, alone in a new city, dug in and developed a whole batch of besties.

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