Risk & Business Magazine McFarlan Rowlands Magazine Fall 2017 | Page 11

A WORKAHOLIC’S LESSON
him to bed. My husband and I began to
question if we were going to be able to
sustain the marriage, or what was left
of it.
It all became too much, and in early
December, I went to a hotel’s 22nd floor
balcony and called my husband saying I
couldn’t do life anymore.
On December 14, I was hospitalized for
severe depression and sent to a mental
hospital for six days. They took my
shoelaces, my hairbrush,