Schizophrenia

A 17 year old girl(that would be me) was asleep in a centerpoint hostel. She was awaken by her room mate, K, who was screaing 'please no! I don't want to die!'. K was stearing in to the darkness, the darkness that seemed in some form or way to look like the devil. She was petrified. I saw it to with my very owm eyes, no I don't mean the devil.I mean I saw that K had seen tha devil. I saw the fear in her eyes. I hear the genuine cries. I thougt that K was just a bit 'hi, druged up' as I had see her smoking drugs earlier that day. A few hours later K slowly lay back in her bed and started crying. I felt scard and and confussed. Was K just a bit hi or was there somthing rong with here?

The following day K didn't talk to anyone. She looked frightened. All she did was smoke drugs and eat, crying as she did everything. K wouldn't look at me propaley bceause she thought that I thought she was mad.

Every night for the the rest of the week I was woken in the middle of the night because K was screaming one thing our another. K moved out of the hostel by the hostel at the beggining of the followig week, as she had gained a place in a better, much nicer hostel.

A year went by and I did't see or hear from K, though I did hear alot about her. I hear that she had commited a murder, I even saw her picture in the news paper, but I was later told that she had not commited it but thought she had. I also heard of her doing many strange things like tellig every one that they all had slime on their heads, talking to her self, lying on the floor crying and then not remembering what she had done, trying to kill her self and many more strange things. At first we'd all laugh and joke about it saying things like 'it's the drugs'
earlyer this year I had heard that K had been taken to a pychiatric unit after being diagosed with acute paranoid schizophrenia.

Why did K turn schizophrenic?
Some people say it was the drug. Some say it was the traumatic abuse. Other say it was a family history of mentla illness.



Schizophrenia is a range of unusual behaviors that cause alot of disruption in the lives of the people suffering from the condition and in the lives of the people around them. Back in history poeple used to thing that people suffering from schizoreia where possessed by devil and were feared, tormented, killed or locked up forever.

1 in 3 people with schizophrenia will try to kill them selfs. 10% will kill them selfs within 20 years of beig diagnosed. Scizophrienics are ore likly to substace abuese.