Depression Most of us will experience depression sometime in our lives, but some will experience a deep depression. Being outside our home culture can delay recognizing what is wrong or make getting help difficult. Margaret got us thinking about depression as a topic for Peter's Wife when she sent an article by Dick Innes called Overcoming Depression. The full text for that article can be found on the Member s Comments page, along with several other helpful articles.
Depression can be an occupational hazard for PWs.
We live outside our home culture without many of the support systems the average woman has. Lacking the feedback of friends and family we can turn a molehill into a mountain or slowly, inch by inch, slip into a deep depression. We will take a look at some of the causes of depression frequently encountered by PWs. Physical exhaustion topped my list early in our time in Malaysia. I tried to keep my tropical house like I had kept my American house.