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“Everything‘s not as simple as you think, my boy.“

“No, no, nooooooooo! Go away and never come back“.

...“ Ethan, wake up! Ethaaaan!“

He woke up suddenly. Cold sweat was flowing down his face. He was still in his nightmare and wasn‘t able to come back to reality. He was petrified like never before. It really was one of his scariest dreams...

Diary. By Ethan

Hello. My name is Ethan and I am a slightly different child than the others. I am suffering from schizophrenia. It is a chronic mental illness that affects the spheres of feelings, thinking, perception and will. If I hear various voices and see images, nobody else sees or hears them as they are not real. I also often feel unreasonably anxious or unable to control my emotions. As a child, this disease did not stop me from enjoying life, but over time it has got out of