South Carolina woman Kaylee Muthart who had gouged out her own eyes being under the influence of drugs is getting better. While she is blind, the 20-year-old plans to study marine biology. She has also started to learn Braille. She has raised more than USD 30,000 toward a USD 50,000 GoFundMe.com goal to buy a service dog. She said, "It took losing my sight to get me back on the right path, but from the bottom of my heart, I'm so glad I'm here." Currently, her mother, Katy Tompkins is helping her revive completely.

In a shocking incident that shows the dire consequences of being under the influence of drugs, Muthart gouged out her own eyes. Cosmopolitan quoted her as saying,  "I convinced myself that meth would bring me even closer to God."  Muthart who was once a part of state National Honor Society member in Anderson, S.C. dropped out of school and became a methamphetamine user. From marijuana, ecstasy, smoking to meth, the 20-year-old's path changed completely.

However, her mother was trying to get her to a psychiatric facility on February 6 when the incident happened. That day after shooting up a large dose of meth she hallucinated that she stumbled along a railroad track. She says she says a white bird on a light post except for which everything was dark. "Even though it was 10:30 in the morning, everything looked dark and gloomy apart from a light post, where I thought a white bird was perched," she told c.

Next, she gauged her own eyes thinking it was the right thing to be done. Rationalising her action, she said, "It was then I remember thinking that someone had to sacrifice something important to right the world, and that person was me. I thought everything would end abruptly, and everyone would die if I didn't tear out my eyes immediately. I don't know how I came to that conclusion, but I felt it was, without doubt, the right, rational thing to do immediately."

While for a moment she didn't know why she had to do it, she thought it was a personal religious calling. However, later she describes it as "something anyone on drugs could have experienced". Muthart describes plunging her fingers into her eye socket and pulling out her eyeballs saying, "it felt like a massive struggle, the hardest thing I ever had to do”. The drugs had numbed her pain.

Later, a pastor and some others saw Muthart kneeling and screaming with eyeballs in her hand". Muthart then spent a week in a hospital and was transferred to a psychiatric facility where she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

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