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VADODARA: Fifteen-year-old Rittam Shah (name changed) came out with hands oozing with blood, leaving his parents shell-shocked. Thinking that the boy must have injured himself with a sharp object, the parents got him treated but were aghast when they later took him to a counsellor too. The counsellor told them that he was depressed due to Covid-induced self-isolation and had actually inflicted the injury on himself.
Introvert by nature, Rittam even had to prodded at school by his friends to start a conversation. Over the last one year, he hardly met his friends and spent most of his time in his room as he is a single child.