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"Tragedy doesn’t have a tablet to cure it"

A story of a tragic psychiatric case on the wards:

To simply say this woman is depressed, to attempt to medicalise the enormity of what she is experiencing, is not helpful. How can medicine cure this situation? How is anyone ever going to make this better? For some people, life is just too painful and sometimes there’s no simple answer.

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