Anytime you want to be depressed read Dalrymple

I've been reading articles by Theodore Dalrymple for years. He's now retired, but he used to be a doctor for many years with the British National Health Service and before that a doctor at a clinic in Africa. He's an excellent writer who unfailingly makes depressing subjects interesting.

The link below will take you to his latest article in City-Journal Magazine. If you like what you see you can find years of his writings by following the links to the author archives at City-Journal.org

Any of his old articles make good lunch time reading if you can stomach the sorts of things a mental health doctor is confronted with in a free clinic in a British slum.

http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_3_otbie-british_children.html