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Laureen Revealed: A Narrative Fiction

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- Do it
- Do it
- Do it!
These words are repeated in her mind, - Do it, I know you want to do it, Pick it up, good girl, now kill her. Laureen made the mistake of almost fulfill the order, her worried parents, they take her to the doctor, but they do not know their daughter suffers from schizophrenia, they do not know she always hears voices.

When they arrived at the hospital, they tell the doctor what happened: Laureen, one adolescent of sixteen years, had a knife in her hands and she was walking to her younger sister, Sophia, at that time was crying because she was hungry. Doctor was surprised and he ask, - “Laureen why were you walking to your sister with a knife?” She did not answer, she knew there was something wrong with her, she knew …show more content…

- “Why did you take the knife, Laureen?”- The doctor asked her again. She was so nervous, scared, she just wanted to go to her room, listen to music, read, she wanted to be anywhere, except there, in this Doctor's office, which now looked smaller, ugly, creepy and dirty.
- “why had you the knife?!”- Her father demanded. She was afraid, her father had never spoken to her in that tone, so strong, desperate and disappointed.

This time she explained what happened, she said that she hears voices, before was only one, but are now more, they shout, they cry and talk in her head. She told the doctor that were easier to ignore before, because they were only murmurs, but now the voices were stronger, she could no longer ignore. The doctor understood what happened, Laureen was sick, she had schizophrenia and now at age sixteen, her disease progressed. The doctor told her parents, when they stop listening to what the doctor said, they were in shock, could not believe that she had this …show more content…

She feels someone walking by her dirty room, and she hears the piercing screams of other patients. One day she felt someone tugging at her hair painfully, she could feel she was running out of hair, when she looked up she could not see anyone, she begins to shout loudly for help, but when the nurses arrived they found a chilling scene, Lauren was pulling her own hair, but she thinks that someone is pulling her hair. When they could reassure her, Laureen was unconscious and much of her hair was on the floor, mixed with blood.

From that day she began to hurt herself, drugs were causing more damage, but the doctor did not change medicines. The nurses began to watch her more, because at any moment she be her dead, but it what they expected did not happen. Someone died, but it was not her, the doctor died. They found him at his desk with a pencil in his eye and there was a note on his desk, in the note was written, “Bad Choice.”

After two years the culprit of the death of the doctor was not found, Lauren showed great advance in her new treatment, and she never again hurt herself and she never again hurt anyone, so on September six, the new doctor allows Laureen to return home. Before she left the hospital, the doctor asked - Do you hear voices now?
Tell him no!
- Don’t
- Don’t?
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