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Thank you. or subscribing, and I hope you enjoy this episode. I have worked as a child psychiatrist for more than 10 years, but there is one incident that I will never forget.

At the start of my career, I did not have a separate office, so I used to go to my client's houses for counseling sessions.

There was a child named Annie.

Her parents told me that despite being 10 years old, she was unable to distinguish reality from her imagination.

I used to have one-hour sessions with her, and it was exceedingly difficult to get her to open

up to me.

We played games and even watched movies to unveil her emotions, but she would not share

what was going on inside her head.

One day, as I was asking about her friends, she blatantly told me about a clown that stays in her basement.

I found it funny, but kept myself quiet, because Annie was finally opening up to me.

I asked her how she knew about the clown.

Then she told me, there's a clown that comes to my bedroom every night.

He tries to take me to the basement where he lives. He is not a good man. I knew that children

around that age are quite imaginative, and sometimes they fail to understand the difference

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