That blows. Obviously I'm not a middle-aged man, but anxiety, depression, and reclusiveness are sort of my bread and butter. If he's anything like me, anybody trying to "help" him is just going to make him feel smothered and even more withdrawn, and then he'll feel guilty that he can't respond in a way he thinks he should.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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