My brother was my best friend. We slept together in the same bed. We would talk at night about everything. Now it's just me. The pupils in Adnan's class, like other children across Sarajevo, have suffered symptoms like withdrawal, sleep disturbances, and bed-wetting, in addition to exhibiting aggressive behavior, psychologists and teachers said.
Children are people without a past.
They have had no opportunity to develop coping mechanisms. In many cases, parents here have stopped being good mothers and fathers, and children have had to construct their own explanations for this abnormal situation. Some of the children at Adnan's school also suffer guilt because they survived the explosion, Hasimbegovic said. Parents blamed themselves for sending them to school, and children blamed their parents. But they can become abnormal, and some of Sarajevo's children are already showing abnormal reactions.