The doctor

Soni curls up in the doctor’s clinic. Naughty manners, loving parents, friends. She had everything. Still, six years ago she realized that smiling was turning into ‘muscle exercise’. Soni stopped meeting people, she wanted to be alone. Her mother suspected affairs, her father said ‘growing up’… Now doctor says depression. God! Why did she suffer in shame so long? Depression was an illness like cancer… Soni bursts into tears for the first time in her adult life. When the tears end, she looks up at the smiling doctor, her own lips gently curled. That was a smile.

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