Personal Narrative: A Period Of Extreme Depression

When I was about nine, I went through a period of extreme depression. Getting out of bed was a struggle, and I wasn’t living, I was surviving. I was not living a life. Fast forward to age twelve, I found self harm, destroying myself every time I felt like I was losing myself. By thirteen I tried to overdose, the lowest point of Mariana’s trench I had ever been in my life up to that point. By fourteen my life had flipped yet again, losing my grandmother sent me into a spiral I had no way of escaping, which led to the second hospitalization, the worst moments of my life were in that place. I had never felt that low, besides sixteen. I had found the blade again and let it consume me, but that is when I knew I needed help to break free of the self destructive pattern I had found myself in the labyrinth of one last time. I went through much therapy to find who I was again. Different medication, two hospitalizations and extreme outpatient therapy to rediscover and change my life. …show more content…
When people in society feel like they are not living they tend to try and change in any way they can. Whether it be losing weight, going to rehab, getting on medication or being destructive to try to feel like they are able to feel something other than the same old. People in the world are obsessed with change. People hate feeling the same old, like they are stuck, and all they want to do is change for better or