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Mental illnesses are not always visible. Many people who suffer from mental health disorders are still ashamed to talk about it or hide their problems. Superficiality does not tell the whole story. The SelfLab social project works to popularize knowledge about mental health. We conducted interviews from the #czasemtegoniewidziać series with people who suffer from mental health disorders and through our project they share their stories for comfort, as a warning, to normalize mental illnesses and disorders. Wiktoria Matyga is 23 years old. She has been struggling with disorders since middle school, which after a suicide attempt in the third year of high school were explained by a personality disorder incorrectly developing towards borderline. It was then that she was diagnosed with drug addiction. In addition to these substances, Wiktoria is also addicted to alcohol. Addiction usually means excessive dependence of the body on a substance, but we can also distinguish addiction, for example, to gambling. Chemical substances such as drugs or alcohol affect mental processes and behavior, temporarily changing consciousness. When these substances reach the brain, they block or stimulate us to various reactions. In this way, they change the brain's communication system, affecting perception, memory, mood and behavior. Over time, increasingly larger doses of the substance are needed to reach a given state. Then physiological addiction occurs), a process in which the body adapts to a given substance and becomes dependent on it. A person affected by addiction requires the presence of a given substance in their body and suffers from withdrawal symptoms (chills, sweats, nausea, and in the case of alcohol withdrawal - even death) if they do not get it. IG: / selflabpl FB: / selflab.project Wiktorii's IG: / matygeusz