‘Istarted to get to work late — sometimes at 11, then at 12 and then at 2; and then I had to quit my job.”
For a year and a half, Ryu Terayama (not his real name) has been suffering from clinical depression — although to meet this handsome, highly articulate and well-dressed individual, you would never imagine it.
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