Personal Narrative: Caroline Smith's Life

Growing up, Caroline Smith always knew she had it easier than most children her age. She had two loving parents, was the top of her class, MVP of the swim team and Caroline was nothing but loved. Throughout high school, she always had many boys who viewed her as a goddess however she never felt the same way. It was at the end of summer going into her Junior year when she met a boy named Emmett Anderson. Caroline fell in love with him the moment she saw him. Emmett had nothing but good intentions towards everyone he knew. After countless amount of days of doing everything together and the school year passing, they had finally fallen in love. Caroline planned to join Emmet at the University of Oregon and move in with him. Emmett …show more content…
Caroline was thrilled to move in with Emmett and not have to worry about her future anymore because from there on out, this was her fruture. She was positive that her life was just going to get more and more perfect as she was no longer going to be in high school. Throughout the years that they were together in college, their relationship just got stronger. Both Caroline and Emmett’s friends thought that living together throughout college was not going to be good for their relationship, but they didn't care. They knew their relationship was strong enough to face any challenge. Throughout these years, Caroline secretly still felt sad and anxious but didn't want to worry Emmett. She even got to a point where she stopped feeling anything at all. It came and went and by her final year of college, she went back to being her happy …show more content…
She started experiencing terrifying thoughts, nightmares and finding herself being paranoid whenever alone. Being a Psychiatrist, Caroline noticed herself become depressed as she believed she failed at her job for not being able to take her own advice. In the continuing months she began to experience symptoms of schizophrenia. At times she would go through strange hallucinations leaving in a state of delusion soon after. Unknown to her was also the unusual motor behavior of her brain. Once Caroline began to understand what all this meant she hides it from her husband, deciding she can fix it herself. Sadly it became worse, yet Caroline reused to acknowledge it. But the voices were unrelenting; she needed to keep them away so she got her prescribed drugs in secret. The treatment was slowly working; she thought it would all be okay. Until one night, Caroline and Emmett had been invited to dinner with the head neurosurgeon, a colleague of Emmett’s; it was running smoothly until voices came to light. Caroline wanted to scream and cry but to her this was too important, she fought against the merciless voices; acting as if she wasn’t being swallowed by the darkness. The voices ripped down the shields of her mind crushing her. They told her she didn’t deserve any of that happiness, that wasn’t worth the time. That everything that she did was worthless and she was angry