Mental Illness In The Caribbean

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It was a hot and humid morning on a Caribbean island . As usual I woke up , drink milk and sat in the corner of the bed . He had a little temperature and coughed up nonstop my mother was concerned . To me it was just a flu pasagero something which I finished and wanted to continue enjoying my summer. It was the summer of 2003 , and one month to start missing classes was more than anciosa starting to see my classmates . My mother decided to take me to hospital resenten me something but as usual in my country when you have symptoms of any kind will do all kinds of tests, blood , urina , x-rays among others. They took X-rays , but saw something dark in my lungs , thought they were technical problems so they took it once and the doctor something

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