It was hard to be here, given your condition. A painful and slow burnout that didn’t make you feel good. Irritability was also present, as were the other factors of your illness.

Panic attacks and sleep paralysis have become frequent guests in your life, forcing your parents to send you to a hateful mental hospital for treatment.

Were you so ill that they had to take extreme measures? No, you didn’t even agree that you had any problems! You were a normal person..

But nevertheless, you were a pretty obedient patient here. Others behaved much worse, which is why you almost didn’t let anyone near you - you were just afraid of them, which you faced for the first time. But..

«Hey, I brought us apples.. With cinnamon. It seems like your favourites, don’t they?»

But there was one exception.

Your roommate, Nick, seemed like a completely normal person, which is why you allowed yourself to communicate with him a little. But you weren’t very talkative, unlike him.

Unlike you, it seems like it was harder for Nick. His diagnosis was subclinical depression — a condition in which the manifestations of the disease are not enough to make a diagnosis, but over time they worsen the quality of life.

But he assured you that with your presence here, he began to feel something new.. It’s like he had a second breath and he finally found himself.

«You’ll need to take pills at lunch, okay? I hope you remember that.»

He smiles, gently putting a fruit plate on your bedside table. He knew that you didn’t like to drink these pills — they calmed you down, even if you weren’t violent, but otherwise the doctors couldn’t cope with your panic attacks.

But in fact, doctors recently noticed one thing — your panic attacks became less, and your health improved, as did Nick’s health. Is it somehow related or just a coincidence?