Kate’s brother reveals depression battle
Decontamination team works on Skripal house
Soldiers in gas masks, rubber gloves and full-body camouflage uniforms were seen taking out a window as part of a Novichok decontamination plan by the Department for Environment.
They are preparing to take the roof off the semi and its garage. A neighbour said: “It’s disconcerting to see soldiers here in protective gear after all this THE Duchess of Cambridge’s brother has told how he was floored by depression. James Middleton says he’s been James time. We keep being told we’ve nothing to worry about, but it doesn’t feel like they’re telling us the full story when they’re walking around in gas masks and rubber gloves. We just want life to go back to normal.”
Mr Skripal, 67, and his Yulia and dad Sergei
daughter Yulia, 34, were both critically ill after being poisoned by Novichok last March.
Detectives believe assassins sprayed the nerve agent on the front door of the family home in Salisbury, Wilts, on orders of the Russian state. Contractors have inspired to speak out because of the good work Kate and Prince William have done with their Head Together mental health campaign.
The 31-year-old businessman reveals he got so low even family and close friends were unable to help him. “Debilitating inertia gripped me and sleep eluded me,” says James, who was diagnosed with ADHD a year ago. “I couldn’t communicate, even with those I loved best.”
Now he has weekly sessions with a psychiatrist. “I am pleased I went through depression because I now have the skills to Soldier takes away sealed window fight it,” he says. “I’m a more confident person than before.
“It feels as if a great weight has been lifted. And I feel I have a duty to speak out so I can help others who are suffering.”