The London Mirror headlines scream that Madonna considered killing herself during her divorce from Guy Ritchie.

Madonna, 51, told Rolling Stone magazine: “It was a challenging year. I may have thrown myself off a building.”

She says that a busy work schedule was the only thing that stopped her.

Divorce, even for superstars, is a traumatic, stressful and emotional life event.  See Emotional Divorce.  It represents the end of future dreams and your identity as a married person.  Depression, anxiety, fear, anger and suicide are not uncommon feelings.

What is impossible to see, in the heat of the moment, is that divorce is also a learning experience.  It can be the beginning of a new life that is frequently better than the old life.  See Making Your Life Plan After Divorce.  Over the year or so that I work with my clients, I get to see many of them go from sad and uncertain at the beginning to happy and confident by the end.

So if you are contemplating suicide, better stick around.  The future may surprise you and be better than you think.

Madonna and Guy Ritchie are calling it quits after almost eight years of marriage, according to USAToday.Com.

Madonna and Ritchie were married in December, 2000.  They have two children: Rocco, 8, and David Banda, 3, who was adopted from Malawi. Madonna also has a 12-year-old daughter, Lourdes, from Carlos Leon.

Madonna is worth about $490 million and Ritchie is worth about $35 million.  They own homes in London, Los Angeles and New York, and a 1,200-acre retreat in Wiltshire, England.

They still have to agree on a financial settlement and child custody.