Against a backdrop of childhood abuse, Wanda Rupp built a happy life ”” with the love of a husband, her two children and a satisfying career ”” until one day darkness came over her and brought everything to a halt.
”I didn’t feel like doing anything. I just wanted to fall into bed and not get up,” said the Middle Paxton Twp. woman, recalling the nervous breakdown she suffered at age 48. ”I was lucky my husband stuck by me. I didn’t want to see anyone. I began losing weight. I was depressed all the time.”
Rupp went to a psychiatrist who diagnosed her depression and put her on one and eventually a series of anti-depressants, none of which worked.
”My husband would go to work and I would be outside on the lawn, wandering. The medications put me out in an atmosphere where I was nowhere,” she said. Eventually, she ended up hospitalized because she was suicidal.