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Personal Narrative: The Great Depression

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I personally believe it’s better to aim low and be happy that I achieved what I wanted rather than plan too far ahead and be disappointed in having not achieved that specific goal. While this sounds like it would screw me in the long term so far in this life minus a few things that were out of my control then I have done a pretty good job so far. So now for the reason why I believe that you risk hurting yourself in the long road by planning ahead too far, the brain does better with short term goals, and finally why I believe this to be the case using examples from my life. I would also like to apologize for how dark this essay might get on that last reason and hope that this doesn’t off put me in your eyes. (talk about how depression started …show more content…

Okay let’s talk about all the stuff that I suffer from at this current date and time, there’s Depression, ADHD, Dysgraphia, and Hypomania; as you can see I drew the short stick in life’s gifts. But as much as my ADHD has helped with me hating long term goals my depression has definitely made it much worse than it was. So ever since Freshman year I had been determined to know what I wanted to do to my life and with the schools constant “Look at how well you have to do because you come from Fairfax County Public Schools”, I started stressing about this for so long that in my sophomore year I snapped and would end up breaking down emotionally, mentally, and at some points physically all because my mind wanted me dead and my body really didn’t want to put up a fight all due to the fact that I was so screwed up because I constantly had F’s in Math. This would end up with me attempting several times before checking myself into a hospital to try and stop. But as soon as I was back in the school building I started freaking out again at all the work I missed and would relapse again staying in the program longer and deciding I wanted to live life with the least amount of stress

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