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A Lone Walk

BMJ 2001; 323 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0108301a (Published 01 August 2001) Cite this as: BMJ 2001;323:0108301a
  1. Ingmar Skoog, associate professor1
  1. 1Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Unit, Gteborgs University, Sweden

Wil is running and running and running. Running from the cold, unemotional, sometimes even brutal psychiatric wards where he has spent the last couple of years. He is running from himself, his anxiety, his emotional scares. He is running from his mother and everyone else who is trying to put him into a little box. All he wants is love and empathy, whatever that is.

This novella takes us inside Wil, into his …

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