02/17/2026
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What can really make a woman take her own life… and the lives of her three children?
Is it cheating?
Is it betrayal?
Is it heartbreak?
No.
It’s deeper than that.
It’s not just anger.
It’s not just pain.
It’s not just “he cheated.”
It is usually a dangerous mix of untreated depression, emotional breakdown, mental illness, trauma, isolation, hopelessness, and sometimes postpartum depression or psychosis. When a person reaches that point, they are not thinking clearly. Their mind is not functioning in a healthy state.
This is beyond ordinary anger.
This is beyond normal heartbreak.
This is a mind that has collapsed under unbearable weight.
Infidelity can hurt deeply. Yes.
Betrayal can break someone. Yes.
But taking innocent lives means something much more serious is happening internally.
To those of us who are still alive:
What could ever make us so angry… so hurt… so broken… that we lose our sense of reality?
Nothing is worth your life.
Nothing is worth your children’s lives.
No man.
No relationship.
No shame.
No embarrassment.
Anger is temporary.
Pain is temporary.
But death is permanent.
If you ever feel overwhelmed to that level that is not the time to stay silent. That is the time to speak, seek help, pray, call someone, see a professional, cry, scream if you must but don’t self-destruct.
As a nurse and someone who cares deeply about mental and emotional healing, I will always say this: untreated mental health issues are dangerous. We must normalize seeking help.
This is not just “evil.”
This is a mental health crisis.
And we must start talking about it.