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Madness
Bernadette Fox is having a tough time with her mental health. After her career falls apart and her family abruptly moves to Seattle, she starts suffering from anxiety and depression, not to mention severe insomnia and agoraphobia. These issues snowball for years and years until they get too big for her to handle. But is she insane? Like, a danger to herself and others? This question dominates Where'd You Go, Bernadette? but, thankfully, the novel answers it by raising a much more important one: shouldn't everyone be asking instead what they can do to help?
Although Elgin is wrong about how bad Bernadette's mental health has gotten, he's simply trying to do the right thing for his wife.
Elgin clearly isn't concerned about Bernadette when he tries to get her institutionalized, because if he was, he would have tried less intensive methods first.
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