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“We’ve tried countless psychologists over the years. They all wanted to make a diagnosis before taking any concrete action. ADHD, autism, gifted or highly sensitive: everyone put a different sticker on Vroon, but in the meantime no one seemed really concerned about her.”
Ⓒ Amaury Miller
She is graduating from high school this year, has loving parents, a nice boyfriend and a close bond with her sister. They are financially well off at home and thanks to the work of her mother, who is a senior purser, she can regularly go on holiday to faraway places. “From the outside, everything seems perfect and I hate that I give that image,” says Vroon Bouter (18). That’s why she wrote the book Mood Cancer, about the mental problems that almost led to her death.