Anxiety And Depression-Personal Narrative Analysis

When I began my freshman year of high school, I knew next to nothing about anxiety or depression. Towards the end of the year I started reading up on both of them I noticed several similarities in some of the descriptions that I read and myself. Over the summer I started asking questions and then found that most of one side of my family had been diagnosed with anxiety and/or depression. Which sort of set me on edge, but I eventually let go of the thought, as I learned that anxiety and depression sometimes ran in families. Subsequently my first week of sophomore year was more stressful than I had originally planned and eventually I became so worked up about the ordeal that I had my first panic attack. As I sat in Biology looking through my weekly planner I suddenly became short of breath and felt as though was going to pass out. I quickly asked if I could go to the nurse, the teacher said I could go. Little did I know that a lunch had just let out so as I made my way to the office a significant amount of people were walking straight towards me. At this point I could not see very well and was walking closely to the wall. I stopped at the bathroom because I was getting dizzy and now felt like I was going to throw up. I sat there in the relative quiet for what felt like hours and then felt …show more content…
Keeping all of that bottled up took a toll on my grades and my social life. I already wasn't a very social person I had few friends and did not leave the house much. Looking back I realize that nothing can really prepare you for the truth not even the actual truth. I also learned that nothing good is accomplished by holding something in. This is something that I will probably be working on well into adulthood, but I am fully prepared to work on it until the problem is solved. I am absolutely sure that this lesson will be applicable in the