Yana Paskova - Photojournalist

Europe: A Dark Room

A patient spirals down the stairs and toward the door leading out of the ward in the psychiatry ward of a county hospital in Bulgaria on August 10, 2006. After sitting on a couch in the hallway for hours, she gets up to seek distractions in the courtyard. She often rubs her face and says, "I have many fears." She says one of them is that the food she is eating is poisoned, so she habitually cleans her face and hands.
A patient spirals down the stairs and toward the door leading out of the ward in the psychiatry ward of a county hospital in Bulgaria on August 10, 2006. After sitting on a couch in the hallway for hours, she gets up to seek distractions in the courtyard. She often rubs her face and says, "I have many fears." She says one of them is that the food she is eating is poisoned, so she habitually cleans her face and hands.