The Demons I can see

Since I was born I was told that I was crazy and I couldn't see anything.

At the age of five, my mother wanted to get me tested, so I did and what they found, changed my life forever.

They told my parents that I was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I remember my mother crying, and the look of disappointment in my father's eyes. They asked if schizophrenia ran in the family, and it does, I got it from my grandma.

They prescribed me Clozapine and I've been using it all my life. It helped some, but I still had hallucinations.

At the age of 15, I stopped taking them because I didn't see the point anyway.

But that ended up being the worst decision in my life. The hallucinations became more vivid, more real.

I couldn't tell the difference between imagination and reality, and it wasn't until I killed an old woman until I finally got sent to a mental institution.

schiz·o·phre·ni·a
/ˌskitsəˈfrēnēə,ˌskitsəˈfrenēə/
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nounPSYCHIATRY
a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
(in general use) a mentality or approach characterized by inconsistent or contradictory elements.
"Gibraltar's schizophrenia continues to be fed by colonial pride"

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This is a short story, if it gets enough attention I may extend it.