The Importance Of A Dysfunctional Family

Dysfunctional Families Do you and your parents get along? Do you feel like you have big responsibilities also not enough time for yourself or your friends, plus parents making dreams and goals for you when you don’t necessarily look up to those dreams and goals, as well as forcing you to take sides, getting involved in their arguments by force? If this sounds like you, then you my friend come from a dysfunctional family so you need to know how to deal with it plus knowing how it could be a bad impact on anyone 's life. So in this essay I will show what a dysfunctional family could do to in anyone’s life, how to deal with it, also comparing it to Chris McCandless’s life with his dysfunctional family.

First thing first let …show more content…
First thing first focus on yourself , what do want in your life, what do you desire, what are your dreams and goals not the ones your parents made for you, and last but not least what do you want to be remembered for? From my experience when you really think about it, It’s your life at the end of the day, your thoughts as well as your actions reflect on your life. I feel like I come from a dysfunctional family sometimes after reading some articles but I wouldn’t let that get in my head or stop me for what I want in my life and you shouldn 't either. My advice is to be aware of your thoughts whether it’s negative or positive, in that case if it’s negative because the way your parents behaving and treating you replace that negative thought with a positive thought reminiscence on the good times to feel better. Instead of stressing start blessing the more you feel grateful and blessed great things will come your way even when the situation is tough. So that’s my advice from my experience and what I would do in that situation. The articles that I have read advises many things to do in dysfunctional families and one of them is to get help by getting individual counseling, therapy groups such as Survivors of Incest or Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families. Another way practicing taking good care of yourself try to identify what you like doing and give …show more content…
Chris graduated from Emory University sounds like he is living life but at home for Chris,wasn’t so good. Walt McCandless which is Chris’s father, had a double life which he had two families. Walt would spend time with each of his family on and off. When Walt comes back to Marcia which is his 1st wife, mother of Chris. Walt would abuse his wife in front of the kids including Chris by punching, kicking, and pulling her hair. One of Chris’s sister would hide every time Walt would come by. Walt also put a pillow over her face suffocating her afterwards breaking her back. Marcia, Chris’s mother reported a letter to a family court of Walt breaking her back. With all this being said the kids were traumatized they said seeing these incidents make them feel like they were nothing as well as thinking they caused their father to abuse their mother and this a evidence of a dysfunctional family an abusive type. Marcia finally divorced Walt, when Chris was only five years old and moved to Colorado with her Children. Years later Chris would spend his summers with his half sisters including his dad. Walt would abuse his 2nd wife Billie this time he would call his kids to see him beating his wife saying “look at what your mom is making me do”. Another evidence for a dysfunctional family this time being deficient parents and abusive. Again I could go