Photo: UntitledPhotographer caption: "I can cry in front of them, I can tell them my s

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Photographer caption: "I can cry in front of them, I can tell them my secrets. I buy them things and they calm me down. I just feel comfortable around them,” says twenty-six year old Lisa Schalm as she poses for a portrait inside of her bedroom in Brockport, N.Y., on Oct. 11, 2017. Lisa suffers from depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder and said that these reborn dolls are the only solution to help calm her symptoms. A reborn doll is a manufactured skin doll that has been transformed by an artist to resemble a human infant with as much realism as possible.”

Photo by Brittainy Newman (New York, New York, USA); Brockport, New York, USA