How fragile we are

Published: Jan. 29, 2017, 7:05 a.m.

Psychiatrist, Tanveer Ahmed, thinks the decline of religion may be to blame for the epidemic of depression, dysfunction and drug abuse, while the lack of an over arching shared sense of meaning and boundaries is creating a fragile nation. Psychotherapist Winsome Thomas grew up in the Salvation Army but left it for an expanded spirituality which has helped her heal fragile lives including her own.