Health
The creaking tree
On how a 10-year-old boy managed depression
Shovon Chowdhury
At the age of ten, I found myself suffering from deep depression. I was born in London, very close to where Paddington Bear was discovered. Soon after, I was taken to a village in Yorkshire, where my father became the local doctor. When I was ten, my parents felt a surge of patriotism, which is never a good thing. If they stayed in the UK much longer, they reasoned, their child would become a little Englishman, or even worse, marry an English girl. It was time for all of us to return to
