Depression, The Ignored Catastrophe that Should Have Been our Cause Celebre

I knew a bright young boy who could have done a lot of good things for this country. Yet, the young man he has become frightens me. His dream to be an influential chemist wilted, replaced by a sad lamentation of his wretched existence. What’s left of him is an aimless being, its youthful ambition gnawed by an enemy invisible to most. What’s left of him is a dependent young man, attached to his bedroom in an inexplicable ennui.