Personal Narrative: Feeling Isolated My Life

I remember looking at the ceiling from a hospital bed while my parents sat by my side. I had dealt with depression and suicidal tendencies for most of my high school career. This disease crippled me; I lacked the energy to study, eat, or even wake up. Feeling Isolated became my new normal. My condition entered its worst phase during junior year when I began lacking the desire to live. I was unable to take care of either my appearance or grades. Life had no purpose, and all I wanted was for the misery to end. Therefore, I started abusing sedatives and alcohol to cope with my anguish. Eventually, I became a lifeless body that was unaware of the surroundings. One evening I finally decided to end my own life. Before I completed this task, I sent …show more content…
The national hotline had tracked my number and informed the police of my whereabouts. They told my parents everything that I had been ashamed to express. My parents took me to the hospital, where the staff ran a series of test to make sure that I had not overdosed. They put me on acute physiological observation for the night before sending me home. The next few months were a blur; I was in constant therapy, had quit drinking, stopped abusing sedatives, and started practicing my faith for the first time in my life. I sought out the teachings of Jesus to guide me through this difficult situation. I turned all my anger away from hurting myself to becoming politically active in my community and trying to fix what I perceived as wrong. I began using my suffering as motivation to enact change in how the government sees and acts upon drug and alcohol abuse. My dream is to finish medical school so I can help those who are in a dreadful place as the doctors helped me that