The real-life story of 'Nia' who exchanged beauty for sanity:
"Nia was too beautiful to be in a psychiatric ward. That's what everyone secretly felt, including the blunt, unsentimental nurses. She was willowy and dark-eyed - not just blandly attractive like teenagers can be. Her parents had delayed signing her into the ward on a section for as long as possible. They couldn't bear the thought that their beautiful girl was going mad."
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As Pablo Picasso once pointed out, all children are creative; the challenge is to remain creative into adulthood.
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