Keiisara Is A Single Mother Essay

Keisara is a single mother of three, she came to counseling because she has this deep feeling of hopelessness and abandonment. Keisara grew up a ward of the state, she has never had any contact with her biological parents. It appears that her feeling of abandonment stems from her disassociation with her mother at birth. Although Keisara claim she grew up in good foster homes, she still feels abandoned by her mother. This feeling of abandonment has caused her to depend on others rather then herself. Keisara recalls her first feeling on this when she was moved from her first foster home on her 8th birthday. She felt abandoned by her then and only foster father. Throughout the years she has found herself in very unhealthy relationships. As those relationships would end she would be faced with that nagging feeling of being left alone again. Although Kiesara is now an adult she feels that this was a constant pattern in her life. She says she “feels that she stayed in a very abusive relationship just to avoid being abandoned.”
Keisara is states that she is usually not with anyone when this feeling occurs, however she says that she gets this feeling when she is overwhelmed with personal situations. She says, “I can’t call my foster mother because she is deceased, I can’t call my birth mother, because I don’t know her and that just …show more content…
The way Keisara handles her abandonment issues do not impede on her day to day functions, it does influence her poor handling of personal affairs. She allowed others to take care of personal matters which she should have been dealing with. Keisara explains “that those who have helped her do not look badly upon her, they are aware of her