It was a warm summer evening

It was a warm summer evening

  • Submitted By: kogutm
  • Date Submitted: 10/05/2015 6:27 AM
  • Category: English
  • Words: 412
  • Page: 2

I am going to choose the first topic which is explain how the media contribute to these feelings. What other influences have you had in your life regarding mental illness? Were these positive or negative influences? Explain how they influenced you. Ok so in my life I have a lot of firsthand experience with mental illness because I have family members who suffer from these kind of illnesses. When I was seven my father tragically passed away. He was running a marathon and just collapsed and was gone. At the time I didn’t really know what was happening because people were just telling me that “Your dad’s not gonna come back” and I was like “Why where is he going” they just told me he going to a great place where everything is perfect. Me being a little kid I was thinking ohh that’s great he’ll be so happy, but when I started to get older and realized that I wouldn’t have him for the rest of my life. This really started to hit home for me. Even more as I have grown up he wasn’t there for my first varsity football game, he won’t be here for my wedding day, or at the birth of my children. As I think back sometimes I have short little burst of what I would call depression. They are small burst of intense bad feelings that I feel over a stretch of time. I don’t know why this happens, but it does and I have learned how to live with it. The loss of my father also really hit home for my mom. She was diagnosed with clinical depression for a whole three years after his death. I know that it was hard for her to get over, but it was hard for me and my older sister because we felt like she wasn’t completely herself. Now I feel that my family has found peace my mom remarried an old friend of hers from college and we finally feel like we are all together again. I believe that in this instance depression is normal because the death of an immediate family member is a very hard thing to deal with and I feel that my family handled it the best we could. When I see things on TV...

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