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This is on point. I'm Deborah Becker in for

Magna Tachrabardi. Understanding mental illness of a loved one often means

looking back. Tell me about Nick as a child, I mean what was he like growing up?

What kind of son was he?

Adorable.

He looked like a little E-walk in a Star Wars film and when he was younger he would excel at any sport we introduced to him including gymnastics and hip-hop dance and was the best charades player I'd ever seen and just so creative.

That's Laura Krichuan, an artist on Cape Cod speaking with on point producer Jonathan Chang about her son Nick. We should note this story

contains descriptions of violence. Nick was an athlete with a big heart Laura says, but there

was something else that clouded over his childhood.

The thing that plagued him most of his life, really, was that he could hear and see things

that weren't real.

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