During his medical practice, Ruslan Mellin, a maxillofacial surgeon, has seen many mutilated people. As an artist, he made pencil sketches of their portraits, from which a whole series of expressive drawings and the book that is now in front of you were born. "Sick Reality" is the story of a doctor and contemporary artist about his patients who became victims of someone else's cruelty. Ruslan Mellin shares the most terrible, atypical and sometimes shocking cases that have come across over the years of his work. His heroes are most often women victims of domestic violence, but there are also men, children, the homeless, and prisoners among them. All the stories described in the book are real, and behind each of them lies not only a serious physical injury, but also a deep psychological wound.Attention! The opinion of the author of the book may not coincide with the position of the publisher.Editor's design preserved in PDF A4.