You helped when me when I had a nervous breakdown

DEAR DEIDRE: Family responsibility led me to the brink of a nervous breakdown.

I felt as if all the pressure was on my shoulders, and I had nobody to turn to.

I’m 45, with difficult teenage children and elderly parents, both of whom have dementia.

Caring for them all is hard enough, but then there was a flood in my home and, in the same week, my boiler broke.

I was so anxious I couldn’t sleep. I just wanted to run away and let someone else deal with everything.