The Nysse

Written Summary 

Written by Chris Saferos the story is about himself a man who had schizophrenia but never was aware of his condition and tells us the story of how he lived for many years with that mental illness, when he was a teenager he suffered bullying and developed a social phobia and little by little Chris became in a drug addict, his biggest problem through all the book was that Chris was always creating images and ideas inside his mind, he created situations where he was able to talk with people that were away from him, one day trying to solve his problem Chris went to the doctor and the doctor told him to stay away from his friends and everything so that way he could fix his problem but instead of doing something to avoid his problem he kept meeting new friends and he reached one point where all the things got worse because he started to hear a voice and the name of that voice was "The nysse" this voice controlled him and made him do things that he didn’t want to, the nysse made him say things to offend people and laugh of the people that he was taking to, so he passed years living like this because this situation became in a part of chris's life, he met  three friends Alliky, Nataly and Amanda they tried to helped him but they only destroyed more his life because he tried to rob a bank and he end up in prison where he passed 3 years of his life suffering bullying and tried to kill himself twice so he finally recovered his freedom and  at the end thanks to a friend who had the same illness that he had, he realized that none of the voices or the people that he met were real they were just illusions created by his mind created by the Schizoprhenia.  

Vocabulary

Flawless: Without any blemishes or imperfections

Quarrel: An angry argument or disagreement, tipically between people who are usually on good terms.

Withdraw: Remove or take away something from a particular place or position

Acquintances: A person's knowledge or experience of something