Personal Narrative: Gaining Control

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This past year has been the most strenuous year of my life. My family was crumbling, my grades were failing, my boyfriend broke up with me, I lost nearly every friend I had, I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. I saw as if there was no light at the the he of the tunnel for me. It got so bad that almost every day I would come home from school throwing up because of the stress I was putting on myself. Then, one day, I was talking with my mom about all of this and she told me that she did not really know how to help but maybe my problem was relinquishing control. Now, I had never really though of myself as a control freak of any sort, but as I started think about things in my life that I could control is became apparent to me that I could

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