My mom passed away in 1999. I was in a pretty dark place after that and sought grief counselling to deal with the death of a parent. Coming out of the trial, I could feel myself going back into kind of a dark place. I'm not trying to equate the two, but I could feel myself going there. I was self-aware enough and had some coping strategies from the grief counselling after the passing of my mom to kind of deal with that and know to reach out. Obviously, my wife encouraged me to as well.
I was very, very fortunate to find an amazing counsellor right off the bat, who listened to me, sympathized with me, gave me more coping strategies, and was just an amazing person, and to this day I thank her all the time that I talked to her.