Looking Back The Two Significant Experiences Outside Of My Life Case Study

Improved Essays
Packet Questions #42

Looking back, the two significant experiences outside of my family that have affected my personality, direction in life, or lifestyle for the future are ______ As you consider events that stick out in your life, consider the who? What? When? Where? And how?

Looking back, the two significant experiences outside of my family that have affected my personality, direction in life, or lifestyle for the future are becoming friends with Angel, and doing better in school. The reason meeting Angel has affected my personality, is that she helped me become less shy, even though we didn’t go to the same school. I think that she had helped me be much less shy by being able to not worry how she would judge me if she was at my school,
…show more content…
I think these things are too personal to discuss with others, because I don’t want people judging me if I tell them the reason I’m that way. Because some of the reasons that I have became depressed, some people might think that they are not good reasons, or that they are dumb. Another reason I wouldn’t tell people how I’ve become depressed, or when I became depressed, is because I have felt depressed, and had suicidal thoughts since I was seven years old, and I don’t really know what it’s like not to be. When I have told people about that in the past, it seemed like they didn’t believe me, or that because I only had “suicidal thoughts”, and that I wouldn’t act on them, people would think that it wasn’t real, or that it wasn’t that bad. When I tell people, they might think that I am doing it for attention, because usually whenever someone tries to tell people how they feel, it comes out as weak, or that they should be keeping that to themselves, or fake because it’s “just for attention. I think that it’s also too personal to discuss, mainly because people don’t take it as serious, and it makes me feel like I shouldn’t talk about it, such as my therapist, i would talk about how I have suicidal thoughts, it seems like they don’t care as much, because they’re more worried about if I actually am going to take my life, rather than just thinking about

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Speech On Suicide

    • 1832 Words
    • 8 Pages

    In the article “Communities Now Take Frank Approach After Teen Suicides” Alan Holmlund states “Talking about suicide is a whole lot better than keeping it hidden” (Schworm, 1). Talking about suicide is better than keeping it a secret because then you can ask people to help you get through and ask them to help you get professional help. Also if you talk about it to someone it will make you feel better and it will give you a relief knowing you can talk to someone about it instead of not being able to tell anyone and feeling alone. If you can talk about suicide and can get through it, then you can help other people who are feeling that way and can say that you know what it’s like because you have been in the same spot they are in now, and they will believe you because you just went through it. In the article “Communities Now Take Frank Approach After Teen Suicides” David Fleishman also states that “Candid discussions about mental health issues, at school and at home , will help students realize they are not alone”…

    • 1832 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I have experienced depression since my teenage years. I had suicidal thoughts that I came close to acting on several times. Something always happened to distract me from my plans. I was never free to voice my depression to anyone. That just wouldn’t have been acceptable in my Christian home.…

    • 773 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A lot of people do not like to address events such as attempted suicide or any sort of mental illness, but what good will neglecting such discussions do? Depression is difficult to interpret; and unless one has experienced it, it becomes arduous to explain. Everyone carries a sort of weight on their back; and how heavy it becomes depends on the diverse events of life.…

    • 348 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    People change, each new experience can impact a person or character one way or another. These changes can be good at times and bad at others. These experiences are what shapes one’s personality, life, and outlook. These experiences help to shape one’s personality in a major way. In the book In Real Life a memoir by Joey Graceffa he shares his experiences and how they affected his personality, life, and outlook on life.…

    • 663 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Everyone knows the YMCA song, but everyone doesn’t have the same connection to it that I do. This building never contained one life changing event for me, but it has been a pivotal place in my life. A place I’ve referred to as home many times, the YMCA has shaped who I am as a man. This pivotal spot is where I suffered my first traumatic injury, changing how I do things for the rest of my life; but also was the place I went to when coping with family incidents. This institution, in particular the basketball gym, helped me find myself, changing my life forever.…

    • 1014 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    TOK Homework Task 2 I believe that my past experiences have shaped who I am today, making me unique to others. Experiencing different things throughout my life has contributed to influencing many factors that define who I am, which includes my thought processes, mind-set, attitude, aspirations, expectations, social behaviour and personality. For example, everyone would have different thoughts and feelings about a particular word, person or place, because of their own experiences associated with it. This is what separates one person from another.…

    • 344 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There are approximately 397,000 children in foster care in the United States of America currently and I used to be one of them. However, foster had not even been near the forefront of my mind that summer. The summer before I started my first year of high school, I had plenty of anxiety about the tall tale I invented in my own mind that stood before me. Stories about how hard high school were numerous and often regaled on the crowded bus ride home by high schoolers who seemed to have the knowledge of every wise teacher in history combined. which that scared me to death; I had always held my position as a good student who followed the rules of my middle school.…

    • 1444 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Suffering from a severe depressive episode or having suicidal thoughts usually makes the victim feel completely isolated. Watching a friend or loved one suffer from a mental health problem is also tremendously painful. My goal in writing this is to help people who have not experienced clinical depression understand what a depressive episode is like, and help them be as supportive as they can to a friend or loved one suffering from a mental disturbance. My personal experience with depression is extensive. I have suffered from clinical depression for most of my life.…

    • 3050 Words
    • 13 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My Trip To Haiti

    • 588 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Describe an experience from your life that either demonstrates your character or helped shaped it. This summer, I visited my home country Haiti. I went there for just ten days, yet those ten days of scorching heat opened my eyes and made me see how lucky I am, and how much I should take advantage of the resources I have readily available for me to use. I’ve always known I should be happy that I have the opportunity to have a free education, parents, and roof over my head while living in one of the biggest countries in the world.…

    • 588 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The person I am today has been shaped by the environment in which I was raised in, my racial identity and the personality I have developed through experience. I was born in Mexico in 1999 and moved to the US at the age of one because my parents wanted to give me the best life possible and they believed that living in the US was the best way to do so. I was raised in an all spanish speaking home and I learned english at school at the age of 5. As a child I struggled with accepting my identity because I was raised with two different cultures, an American culture at school and a Mexican culture at home. At school I was judges for listening to spanish music and speaking with a spanish accent in english.…

    • 493 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Describe an experience from your life that either demonstrates your character or helped shape it. There are several experiences , obstacles and hurdles that has shape my character and the person that I am but I will only share a few. I had emigrated from the offshore Caribbean island of Haiti, a nation that is plagued by a corrupted government. A place in which a child’s education was aggrandize and perfected due to his parents’ social statute and the walk to school was always a fight between fear and bravery.…

    • 372 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A. Autobiographical Statement My mother was the first and only person in her family to graduate from college, which has always been an inspiration to me. She was an abused wife on food stamps, raising two children on her own while my father was incarcerated. I will always remember when she told me that life was like a lotus flower; we may start by growing in the mud but each day we can choose to bloom above the water into a beautiful flower. It was then that I understood my childhood was not my choice, but how I choose to live the rest of my life was. My mother never wavered in her faith that if I wanted to do something in my life the only thing that could hold me back was myself.…

    • 1829 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Depression is a mood disorder that is diagnosed to millions of people around the world. This disorder has a prevalence of 17% among adults, and possibly even a higher amount among teens and young adults. It has, and continues, to affect me and friends to this day. It’s harsh and debilitating symptoms can wreak havoc on even the strongest and optimistic people in the world. It has multiple causes and the reasons behind it can be different for everyone.…

    • 902 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I didn’t have a bad life, so I didn’t understand why I felt this way. I couldn’t tell anyone because I was too ashamed and I didn’t want to be known as the girl who seeks attention. It was like living in hazy thunderstorm; living in a storm in which I couldn’t shake. Things got worse. My depression seemed to have gone from mild to severe in what seemed like seconds.…

    • 1228 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    An experience that changed my life was on May 19th, 2014, my brother’s death. It changed my life in a positive and negative way. You would think that death would devastate someone for the rest of their life, but my brother’s death actually changed my life. I’m not saying that his death didn’t have a negative effect on me, but it had more of a positive effect on me than anything. His death made me an introvert, think for myself, and see things differently.…

    • 608 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays