Personal Reflective Essay: Personal Control In The United States

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I am going with personal control or lack thereof. I have been under a lot of personal stress for the past few months, stressor 1, my son’s wife left him while he was on deployment in the Navy and had gotten very sick, 2. My youngest was graduating from high school I was happy for him, but it was stressful, 3. My father was sick with cancer and eventually died, I had to handle all his affairs, 4. He left me his home, we are still in the process of moving to Missouri, 5. College/finials and trying to keep up on it with everything else that has been going on. During all of this I have had my difficulties with staying or feeling like I have had personal control through it all. Here are the steps I had taken and continue to take, view things with

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