Emotional Crisis Research Paper

Crisis, a significant emotional event in which people feel a loss of control or are unable to cope. Everyone struggles with conflict in their day to day lives, and if not dealt with soon enough, to many people, it may lead to a crisis. One person’s crisis may not be an issue to another person, but to them it is. This is why crisis is such an open term. It is not something easily defined such as pain or suffering is; but it can cause those emotions in many different people, in many different ways.
The Cause The most important, and emotional crisis I have dealt with in my life is something a lot of other people have gone through, but yet the ones who not, do not fully understand what it is like. When I was three, my parents decided to get …show more content…
I am an adult now, and yet I am dealing with a crisis that I have dealt with since I was a toddler. Others without divorced parents do not understand to the full extent what it is like. On the odd weekend I had to make a decision to either stay with my dad or go visit my mom. At a young age it was not a tough decision, but as my brother and I grew older we started to understand more and more of why we have a different family than what our friends had. Eventually we would start to make decisions of leaving Vegreville to go visit our mom, only because we wanted to, not because it was “her turn” to have us. At other times and different ages we would decide to stay with our dad. As we grew up, we realized that when our parents would get mad at us for not wanting to go, or for wanting to, we realized they weren’t mad at the decision we made or at us. They weren’t disappointed that we still loved both of them equally. We realized they would be upset at themselves, not with each other, but their own self. At certain moments, I can remember having very emotional talks with my parents and brother about each other. At times they were good talks; him helping explain to us that it is not our fault but just a piece of our lives that we would have to overcome. But, at other times, the talks would get really emotional and them both saying things that would confuse my brother and I about our parents. Hearing different stories and the same stories built up so much confusion in my head that I didn’t know how to cope with it, didn’t know who to believe, and at times who to love. Of course those were just thoughts and I still loved my parents very much, but it was hard growing up and having a childhood that my friends had. I realized it was a crisis situation in my junior high and high school years. Still having the emotional talks, worrying about my future, and deciding what to do with my life