Donna Nicholson

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Written by Dr. Donna Nicholson Continued from Part One Content Warning: Suicide, Self-harm In the predawn hours of November 9, 1999, my husband traveled east from Arizona to New Mexico and at some point, he made a fateful turn onto the Zuni Indian Reservation. With that turn his intention was clear–to kill himself thereby releasing the tangled mess his life had become because of his mental illness. He was also driven to escape the suffocating, black depression of his illness.

Written by Dr. Donna Nicholson Content Warning: Suicide, Self-harm In the summer of 1990, I learned that your life can change in the twinkling of an eye. Mine did and it was never the same again. My husband was a respected bank president who had reached middle age and was seeking something he could do that would test his mettle. To that end, he and two friends, all experienced horsemen, decided to take a horse packing trip to the Weminuche Wilderness in Colorado.