Personal Narrative: My Experience With Mental Illness

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Life itself has taught me several experiences. I have endured so my many trial and tribulations.

The thing that has influenced my goals is finding out I have a mental disorder. This is something

that I did not want to accept. In addition to mental illness, I was also an alcoholic. I suffered from

depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. I chose to drink alcohol instead of taking my

medication. This was a horrible decision.

In the midst of dealing with this problem, I was a single mother of four children and was enrolled

in school full time. Depression came in because I divorced my husband and had a pity party with

myself. Nothing was of importance to me anymore. I blamed everyone but myself for my

mistakes. It was

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