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A woman’s hospitalization following a suicide attempt in 2018 led to the discovery of a condition that had shaped her life for nearly 50 years. In August 2018, a problem at the Northern California law firm where Deborah Menzies worked “caused me to go off the deep end,” she said.Menzies told her family she was going to work but instead droive an hour south to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. She intended to jump and end her life.
A woman’s hospitalization following a suicide attempt in 2018 led to the discovery of a condition that had shaped her life for nearly 50 years. In August 2018, a problem at the Northern California law firm where Deborah Menzies worked “caused me to go off the deep end,” she said.Menzies told her family she was going to work but instead droive an hour south to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. She intended to jump and end her life.