VD: Levi gestures @ the camera with their hand in a claw shape & with each motion a new text box appears. TEXT: FATIGUE, JOINT PAIN, DIZZINESS, CHEST PAIN. That boy needs therapy!” Next, Levi is shown pinching & pulling skin on their face, demonstrating mildly stretchy skin as they stare blankly @ the camera. TEXT: Psychosomatic. Levi points 2 text reading: “DIARRHEA.” More text: That boy needs therapy! Now Levi stands in a hospital bathroom wearing a blue patient gown over jeans. They smirk. TEXT: Purely psychosomatic. PLEASE I CANT DIGEST ANYTHINF ANYMORE. That boy needs therapy! Levi is shown convulsing on the floor. TEXT: I’ll lay down on the couch. I CANT STOP MOVING. Levi walks across the foyer with a foot locked facing inward. TEXT: Well, what does that mean? You’re a nut! Onscreen quickly flashes an image of what appears 2 be household objects, but upon closer inspection no item in this image is identifiable. It’s haunting. This image will be called Haunted.jpeg from now on. TEXT: You’re crazy in the coconut! Levi’s foot is shown locked facing inward again. TEXT: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? That boy needs therapy. It’s your mental health. Levi’s arm jerks up & down as they stare into the distance. TEXT: I’m gonna kill you. I’m gonna kill me. Levi lip syncs with a smug grin. TEXT: That boy needs therapy. A much younger Levi is seated in their wheelchair as their head jerks back and forth. TEXT: TIC ATTACKS. A selfie of Levi aged older with makeup streaming down their cheeks. Exhaustion on their face. TEXT: LAUGH ATTACKS. Now when I count to 3… Levi in bed with a headache hat. TEXT: CHRONIC MIGRAINE. Haunted.jpeg pops in for a moment. Levi having a tic attack. TEXT: FND. Haunted.jpeg returns. Levi hyperextending their elbow. TEXT: HSD. Toddler Levi gazing into the distance. A man smirks next to them. TEXT: He was white as a sheep. IT’S NOT JUST MY PTSD. Haunted.jpeg comes crawling back in. Levi lays on the floor as they prop up the phone 2 record incoming convulsions. TEXT: CRPS. He also made false teeth. TEXT: POTS, O-H. Haunted.jpeg smolders again. Next come clips of present day Levi speaking to the camera. Spliced in between are flashbacks to haunted.jpeg. Finally, Levi is shown doubled over in their wheelchair As this clip plays, they repeatedly sit back up, only to collapse again. TEXT: in april 2023, my first ever specialist listened to me. Haunted.jpeg. TEXT: i had been symptomatic for at least a decade. Haunted.jpeg. TEXT: with time, and more specialists, more diagnoses came. and this year, i know it wasn’t just my mental health. Levi collapses a final time and the screen goes black. End VD.

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