Fabio was born in the South of Italy, and grew up in Trieste. He studied classics and started working in theatre as an actor after secondary school, while he was studying psychology at university, at he age of 22, he came into contact with psychiatric services as a result of psychotic crisis. This relationship with ‘mental health services’ continued for many years, until he entered the Recovery House. After that experience he decided o start working as educator in a social cooperative where he continues to work.