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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