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23.01.2025
“I Am No Longer Afraid of the Dark”: The Real Story of 9-Year-Old Sofiia from Kharkiv Region
With the start of the large-scale invasion, nine-year-old Sofiia was forced to leave her native Pisochyn in Kharkiv region. Eventually, she and her mother settled in Ivano-Frankivsk, and her father became a defender of the country.
Due to the horrors of war, the girl developed a fear of the dark (nyctophobia), which psychologists from the Ivano-Frankivsk “Voices of Children” Center helped her manage.
Because I have been drawing — I am not afraid of the dark anymore. Somehow it helped me, I do not know how. I just drew what I wanted — and that is it,
The girl was able to share her experiences with her mother only two months after starting classes with a psychologist. Why she did not talk about it before — she could not explain.
Sofiia became the heroine of the All-Ukrainian social campaign “Do You Hear What This Is About?”.
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