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Appendix D contains ten sentences in which my transferable, content, and stylistic skills were applied to an experience which occurred in my life. This is exercise 6-4 in the textbook. My transferable skills included “coached”, “listened”, “helped”, and even “evaluated”. It would seem as though I should be in a profession where listening, helping and evaluating are all integrated into a day’s work. By being a physician, I would be “coaching” patients, in a sense, by directing and guiding them back to their normal health state.
This second coping mechanism was very interesting to read as many women do so and often found help within their friends, family or community resources however, not all run with the same opportunity to do so. Lastly, I found it important to know that “there is a difference in the use of coping strategies between women who experienced or witnessed abuse in their families or origin and the ones who did not experience or witnessed abuse” (Roberts, pg. 570). For those who have not been in an abusive situation we always think of why the victim didn’t leave the
96). Even though neither of these methods are ideal for handling the trauma of having an abusive parent, keeping it inside and pretending it didn’t happen is just as bad and could lead to psychological problems if never addressed (Pelzer 1995, p.
The transition from eighth grade to ninth grade is one of the most difficult but unforgettable things a student must do in his adolescence. For me, it was filled with new opportunities of taking Ap classes and joining clubs. One of these cubs was Youth and Government (Y&G). For as long as I can remember my brother, Riad, has boasted about how amazing Y&G is and how it has changed his life. My brother is three years older then me, so as a freshman he was a senior in Y&G.
Psychological defense mechanisms are common tactics used with or without realization to protect oneself. These various defense mechanisms are often used to protect one from confronting his or her weaknesses and desires that occupy the back of their mind. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Phineas exhibits psychological defense mechanisms due to the fact that he can not accept the reality of an experience. Denial is a common defense mechanism that consists of refusing the truth and simply denying a traumatic experience. Repression is a step above denial; repression involves dismissing and forgetting the trauma.
Bam, the runner hit the ball. She dropped the bat and ran to first base. Safe, she kept on running to second. As I watched her run I realize she wasn’t stopping at second, or third. Rounding third base, she sprinted to home plate.
I wondered how he was going to take the news. Dad never reacted well to news, and as I stared up at the airplane gliding through the thin clouds, I wished I could turn back, and redo everything. The screen door suddenly opened, and I was greeted by my triumphant father, proud over my latest victory on the court. You did real good Carrie, he said as a small but bright grin passed of his otherwise blank face, Ive never seen a ball fly so fast.
Misdiagnosed November was when the pain started. I was dizzy at church one Wednesday night. I did not think much of it. Though, now, I think I should have. Looking back, I should have mentioned it to someone there or I should gone home early, but I did not.
On September 8, 2008 I arrived to the hospital at six o 'clock in the morning to get induced to have my first daughter due to a blood clot I had in my leg. The nurses first told me to change into a gown. Shortly after they hooked me up to the monitors to hear the baby moving all around. Also to track her cute little heartbeat. Another one was to monitor my contraction and watch them on the screen.
When I was in high school, times were very difficult. I didn’t have many friends and I had issues that I had to deal with. I never understood why I didn't have many friends. I would talk to people and try to start a conversation. But, most people would shut me out.
When I was thirteen years old, I found out that my dad had PTSD. Me being a little girl I did not understand what PTSD was. My dad has been in the Army for twenty-two years and has seen a lot of traumatic things which has caused him to have PTSD. PTSD is a Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you have gone through an extreme emotional trauma that involved the threat of injury or death.
“A pathological liar” my mind blanked after hearing that. Halfway through a one on one conference with my math teacher, he had just finished belittling me for what appeared to be ten minutes, when he felt he had a right to say this to me. I sat there frozen, the reason I even asked for this appointment so I could talk to him about getting more time on the test; It was a chapter final and I knew that my dyslexia would be making it more challenging for me. He followed up the name calling with an anecdote on how I’m going to end up in jail just like his daughter, I was completely stunned; I had no idea what to say back so I just let him talk.
Overworked. That’s the closest word that I could use to describe this week. I feel like this journal is going to be about me just bickering, yet there is some stuff you might want to read about. First of all, I have been sleeping three hours this week because of upcoming midterms, quizzes, and assignments due. I am sleep deprived and mentally drained and as my second year in college I have never had my life drained out of my body like a passing shadow.
Defense mechanisms are how people handle situations to avoid experiencing anxiety. This helped me understand how and why people do what they do in times of stress, and the diverse ways that people may handle stressful situations. I learned that there are 11 defense mechanisms, repression, suppression, regression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement, denial, intellectualization, sublimation, compensation. For example, if a person is depressed then they might act extremely happy so that no one knows they are depressed and they won't have to deal with the anxiety of talking about their feelings, I found out that this is known as reaction formation. Or that a person may accuse another person of having certain feelings because they have it themselves, this is projection.
“Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this” (Andreae). I began to struggle with depression when I was in my second year of middle school. People always assume a major life event is what caused it, but nothing had changed: my dad moved out of state when I was in the fourth grade, I was friends with the same people I had been friends with the previous year, and I had never been very close with my step-father. But none of this was new to me, so what had caused this change in my mentality?
