Personal Narrative-Assisted Suicide Case Study

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My father was in the United States Army. He was stationed in Germany during the Cold War and when he returned home he starting having problems. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1992 his condition was manageable all the way up until 2008. All of sudden he did not trust anyone; he would not let anyone in his house, and he started buying plane tickets and flying to random places and staying in hotels and not letting anyone know where he was. This continued for about three years, finally in the spring of 2011 he reached out to my grandmother and said that he would like to talk to me. When we spoke he told me that he was lonely and wanted to know if I would be willing to come and stay with him for a while. I am single with no children and at the time I was unemployed. …show more content…

In the spring of 2012 I enrolled at Central Ohio Technical College. I really enjoyed being in school the first quarter. When the summer quarter started my father’s condition started to change. He began screaming loudly and he would scream from night until morning and all during the day. It got to the point where I could not study, I could not sleep and the stress of the situation overwhelmed me. The change in his behavior came suddenly and it is the reason why I withdrew from school in the summer of 2012. I was so discouraged by what happened that I did not handle the withdrawal process very well. I am sorry for that, and wish I could do it over. Part of my father’s illness is paranoia which causes him to not trust. Also, he does not like it when people say his ill. Approaching him for help in this situation is not an option. So finding proper documentation is almost impossible because his information cannot be released without his consent. However, I was able to find discharge papers from when he was released from twin valley behavioral hospital in April of this

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