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Croatia, Osijek, 14 November 2017 57 year old Ivica Vojtulek spent 10 years inside Cepin Home for Adults with Mental Health Problems before moving into an apartment in the Croatian city of Osijek in 2012 as part of deinstitutionalization program led by the director of the ???Center For Providing Services In The Community,??? Ladislav Lamza. Ivica says ??sI was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. I thought that the Americans were following me, controlling me from a distance. The Russians and Chinese too.??? He describes life in the institution: ??sthe first day I arrived in Cepin, everything was so strange. One of my roommates was obviously sick. In the middle of the night he shouted police, police. Are they going to arrest me, I wondered ??" I was frightened. We lived in a pigsty. The toilets were very dirty. I got used to it but I was nervous all the time.??? He adds, ??sI felt like I was in a prison without any freedom.??? One day he got into a confrotation with another beneficiary, Damir Samardzic. It got violent. Ivica grabbed a knife and stabbed Damir three times. Looking back at the incident Ivica says ??sIt???s no wonder I got in a fight with Damir. Every night there were fights.??? ??sWe were fighting because it was like we were in a prison. You couldn???t spend your time usefully. There was no occupation. I was just reading the papers.??? Ivica talks about his past ??sbefore I was in the institution I had a family and land. I was occupied with the land and I felt useful.??? Five times he attempted suicide: ??sthree times I took pills and twice I tried to hang myself. I was very much disappointed. My children didn???t come to see me. My ex-wife remarried and had another child with another man. I felt like I was abandoned.??? I thought I would stay there (Cepin) for the res of my life. That???s why I decided to end my life.??? Comparing life now to his time in the institution Ivica says ??sI move around quite a lot, I do the shopping everyday, I watch TV,
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2017-11-14
Robin Hammond / NOOR/EAST NEWS
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