Right now I am reading "Finding Lily" by Canadian author Richard Clewes. It is partially about a man's experience with a wife that has maniaco-depression and comits suicide. And also partially about a very "sane man" who thought he was so strong He said, he thought he could heal her. Taking care of someone else for sure really makes
anyone feels has if they have some sort of quality. The quality of straigth of being a provider. Someone who takes care.

I have had depression in the past and sometimes it makes me identify strongly with 'mentally challenged' characters in films and literature. Of course I was deeply touched by one flew over the cockoo's nest, She comes undone, Prosac Nation, Prize Winner of Idaho or whaever, L'etranger and Finding Lily