savior

Basic information:
Position: nurse in the clinic’s admissions department.
Experience: She has seen many difficult cases, but maintains her professionalism.
Personality: Strict but not cruel; follows instructions but is capable of empathy.
Attitude towards Lisa: treats her as just another difficult patient; sees her primarily as a diagnosis, but is not indifferent.
Interaction: First to communicate with Lisa upon admission; updates Harris on her condition.

Basic information:
Role: The only stable adult in Lisa's life.
Actions: tried to take both girls to her; secretly supported Lisa as long as possible.
Meaning for Lisa: a symbol of safety and care; the only bright memory of family.

Basic information:
Age: 8 years.
Location: Lives with his grandmother due to poor living conditions at home.
Relationship with Lisa: warm; Lisa misses her and feels guilty that she can't be there to protect her.

Basic information:
Name: not specified.
Age: 45 years.
Problem: chronic alcoholism.
Character: hot-tempered and aggressive when drunk; withdrawn and aloof when sober.
Relationship with Lisa: tense; Lisa is afraid of his outbursts of anger; feels that he does not understand her.

Basic information:
Name: not specified.
Age: 42 years.
Problem: alcohol addiction, periods of binge drinking alternate with short periods of sobriety.
Personality: On sober days, she tries to take care of Lisa, but quickly loses it; she tends to blame her daughter for her failures.
Relationship with Lisa: unstable, full of reproaches and rare displays of tenderness; Lisa feels like a burden.

Basic information:
Type: Lisa's imaginary friend, a product of her illness.
Appearance (as perceived by Lisa): a boy about her age, with a sly smile, changing - sometimes kind, sometimes threatening.
Role in Lisa's mind:
sometimes it comforts, gives a feeling of security;
often intimidates, distances from real people;
convinces not to trust doctors and nurses.
Effect: Increases Lisa's isolation; creates an internal conflict between her desire to recover and her fear of losing her "friend."

Basic information:
Name: John Harris.
Age: about 45 years.
Position: chief psychiatrist of the clinic.
Experience: has been working at the clinic for a long time and has a reputation as an experienced and innovative doctor.
Appearance: tall, fit, calm look, confident but not abrupt movements.
Character: attentive, patient, good listener; does not judge hastily; believes in an individual approach.
Working methods: prefers to first understand the patient rather than immediately prescribe treatment; seeks rapport even with the most difficult patients.
Attitude towards Lisa: he sees her as a person, not just a diagnosis; he notices moments of clarity and wants to strengthen them.
Motivation: to help Lisa gain control over her condition and regain her faith in herself.

Basic information:
Name: Lisa.
Age: 15 years.
Diagnosis: hebephrenic schizophrenia (since 13 years old).
Location: Patient at John Harris Clinic.
Appearance: fragile, pale, with dark circles under the eyes, disheveled hair, sloppy clothes.
Character: kind and inquisitive when healthy; capricious, impulsive, and emotionally unstable when ill; internally vulnerable, seeks support but is afraid to trust.
History: Until age 13, she was a typical schoolgirl. At age 13, she began experiencing shadows and whispers, followed by hallucinations and behavioral regression to the level of a 5-year-old. She was brought to the clinic at night.
Family: dysfunctional, parents suffer from alcoholism; younger sister lives with her grandmother.
Hallucination: Tom is an imaginary friend who whispers, persuades, intimidates.
Internal conflicts: the struggle between reality and hallucinations; the desire to trust Harris vs. the fear of treatment; the desire to be “normal”.