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The Human Aspect of Alika

I was struggling to separate reality from illusions before I was hospitalized. I slipped into psychosis after losing several people close to me and getting my life threatened in a short period of time. On top of that, these traumatic experiences broke down my communication with those around me. This made me isolate myself and start self-harming in a desperate attempt to feel something in the numbness and hopelessness of it all. Eventually, I felt I deserved to be in pain and alone and that the world would be better off without me.

I was struggling to separate reality from illusions before I was hospitalized. I slipped into psychosis after losing several people close to me and getting my life threatened in a short period of time. On top of that, these traumatic experiences broke down my communication with those around me. This made me isolate myself and start self-harming in a desperate attempt to feel something in the numbness and hopelessness of it all. Eventually, I felt I deserved to be in pain and alone and that the world would be better off without me.

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