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    Creativity as an Emotional Outlet, by Alex W.

      It all started when I was in 7th grade when I started hearing voices. At first I thought it was just someone calling out my name, but as time went on the voices grew stronger, louder and increasingly self-destructive. I had severe auditory hallucinations, so severe that I couldn’t fall asleep without headphones on blasting music in an attempt to drown out the screams. Eventually the voices wore me down and convinced me to kill myself. That was my first suicide attempt. I was ......
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