Live another life. (Autobiography of a smiling depressive) This is not a Bug's Bunny story
By Douglas Stuart Laird
The author was born in Liverpool during the depression. The son of a corporation labourer who had spent most of his early life in the ninety-third Argyle and Sutherland regiment in India and treated his children worse than the dhobi wallahs he employed over there.
He was a very hard man and his family lived in poverty while he shouted one and all drinks in the local boozer. The author, whose fragile mother was doing her utmost to feed the family eventually succumbed to malnutrition (then a new word for starvation) at the age of forty-three leaving the four children to fend for themselves.
The author not only suffered a miserable and unhappy childhood but also had to contend with frequent bouts of black depression, eventually being diagnosed as a smiling depressive, always laughing and joking on the outside but crying on the inside.
As he matured the only nurturing he could get from these terrible bouts of depression was to dream of sexual fantasies. How did he survive? Suffering from malnutrition and contemplating suicide at the age of thirteen he reckons the start of the war saved his life as he was evacuated away from Liverpool to North Wales
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