BusinessWeek, 16 May 2013Shane Todd, a U.S. research engineer found hanged in his Singapore apartment, suffered from depression without appearing suicidal about two months before he died, according to a psychiatrist who treated him.
“He had a lot of worrying thoughts that he could not control,” Nelson Lee, the psychiatrist who saw Todd in April 2012, told a coroner’s inquest at the Singapore subordinate court yesterday. “He did not feel that life had no meaning.”
Todd had “moderate severity” major depressive disorder and was prescribed anti-depressant pills, Lee said. The American had complained about his struggles with work stress, hand tremors and palpitations, the psychiatrist said. Full story
