In the hope that others will be encouraged by this testimony never to lose their trust in God and the truths of Christian Science, I write these lines.
At the beginning of the thirties I began to suffer periods of depression. After a few years the condition worsened, and often I hardly slept for months. Also serious lapses of memory occurred from time to time, so that I feared I was losing my mind. To escape this fate, I was many times not far from putting an end to my life. Only love and a feeling of duty toward my family held me back from this step.
I tried everything that doctors and drugs could do for my case. Opium cures and electric shocks, which I received for months in different mental hospitals, led to no improvement. Mesmeric and suggestive treatments did not help. I took lecithin and stimulants by the bottle. A religious influence helped for a short time; then I sank into a still deeper abyss. All seemed futile. Thus the years passed by.
