When a teenager struggles, everyone asks about the teenager. Nobody asks how the parent is doing. Written from a decade of lived experience — including grief, survival mode, and the years I lied to my own psychiatrist — this post is about what depletion actually costs a family, and why supporting yourself is not selfish. It is structural.

In 2015, Chris Coulter lost his 14-year-old daughter Maddie to suicide. What followed was ten years of listening to families, building what they told him they needed, and turning the worst moment of his life into something that protects other families before it's too late.