From Mad in Italy: The story that follows is neither a curriculum vitae nor an autobiography in the traditional sense. It is an attempt to give shape to a life journey marked by diagnoses, labels, treatments, misunderstandings, and struggles for survival—but also by moments of insight, transformative encounters, and a tenacious search for meaning. It is the account of how an existence can be continuously redefined by external forces—familial, cultural, and institutional—while simultaneously being traversed by an inner voice that, though stifled, ceaselessly seeks room to breathe.
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