I might have been twenty when I had this thought. Good family, material ease - she really should snap out of it.
This was before I'd ever stumbled into fruitless darkness, when mood and circumstance seemed one and the same.
I thought myself magnanimous when rather than judging I rationalised. "Perhaps we're hard wired to seek problems to solve," I pondered, "so where there are none, we create them."
But now instead of second-hand accounts of days in bed, ill-fated relationships and unaccountable weeping, I read her own words.
And I am staggered, inspired, by her strength and her insight,
and by how little we can know of each other until we are ready to learn.