Is this really happening? - Schizophrenia
A paper stop motion animation about the mental illness schizophrenia.
The main character and his friend go for dinner at a restaurant. At first, everything looked fine, but suddenly he saw a shadow behind her. The friend said “Are you okay?”, then he said that there was someone behind her. When she looked back there was nothing, she felt a bit confused but they decided to continue eating. After that, the main character took a spoonful of soup out of his bowl, he started seeing blood and bugs instead. He screamed, and he felt that there were a lot of eyes looking at him. The eyes then turned into vibrant colours and flowers. Then he came back to his senses where he is lying down on the floor in the restaurant. The main character started realizing that this was not normal and he started to lose it.
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