This leads to attempts to befriend your child, to try to hold on to that closeness you once shared, a closeness perhaps replaced by sullenness or silence.
It's not always the silent sullenness of people, often misread as acceptance of their situation by them, that makes you see things in the darkest of shades.
She has described the media as "a form of pollution", and detests giving interviews, sometimes sitting through them in a state of monosyllabic sullenness.
