Heleen was a perfectly normal twenties, until she wasn't anymore: suddenly you become psychotic – and then?

She was an ordinary twenty-something, until she wasn't. Heleen Zijlstra (28) suffered from psychosis and spent two summers in psychiatric institutions. She thought her neighbors were spies and that she was in contact with a higher consciousness. Now she has a diagnosis and a goal. “Schizophrenia, psychoses: it's not just scary and dark.”