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I never heard anyone speak about mental health.

I never heard of depression I never heard of anxiety I've heard of emotions like I know when I was younger my grandmother would have I'm so depressed because she like lost the mamajong or

something but the voice you just heard is a woman from a very tight-knit very

insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

I've heard people say that psychiatry is a secular field.

It doesn't happen, not in our community, or if someone has a mental

illness, it'll be pushed so far under the rug that it can never be pulled back out.

For years, she struggled with something she didn't have the words for, and she watched as others did too.

The year after high school, one of my good friends from high school, died by suicide,

and that was something that no one would talk about.

That was she suddenly passed away, it was a tragedy, no one really knows how, no one really knows why.

And now we'll never talk about it again.

Now we have to pretend that she never existed.

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