Perhaps she (Julia Thorne) tells all in her book about depression.

From personal experience, I do know sometimes all a person can do is walk away from a depressed loved one, esp. after years and years spent trying to help them when they have little desire for change or help, themselves.

I hate when politics starts slinging past personal stuff into the mix. If they'd done so with JFK he never would have been elected and that would've been a damn shame for our country. (Maybe safer for him, though.)

kat