Personal Narrative: Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder where it affects a person's perception of reality by having hallucinations and delusions. Since a person hallucinates and is delusional while having schizophrenia, it makes it hard within everything they do. Since my mother was diagnosed I couldn't want anything more than a cure. It changes a person to the point of no return. My mother used to be the one to bring my brother and I out shopping, swimming, and anything we wanted to do. She used to spend as much time with us as she could. Since she was diagnosed about five years ago, she stopped all of that. When she was diagnosed it was such a scary night because no one in the family knew what to do. I’ve never seen my dad so scared and he didn't know what to do. Having a mental …show more content…
She was yelling for my dad when he came to get us to leave since he thought she lost her mind. We left the house and drove to the hospital; we ran so many red lights because that was my mothers trigger color. We got to the hospital and it got worse. She started screaming in the car saying that the doctors were going to hurt her and that they were aliens. I've never been so scared for someone in my life. My brother and I sat in what looked like an interrogation room for about two hours before a doctor came in to tell us that she was okay. My dad wouldn't talk about what happened to my mom until we got home. He sat both my brother and I down to talk. As we talked we ended up walking through the house only to find about 100 hand drawn Christian crosses on the walls and ceilings. All my mom wanted to do was protect us, the family, from her negative thoughts. The impact of schizophrenia is extremely strong. Over the first four years, everything was different. We didn't have a second income, nor did I really have a mom anymore. She slept all day, woke up for meals and showers then went back to