Personal Narrative: My Brother's Addiction

Dad stayed in the hospital for over a week by the time he came home, he had put over 70 Ivs in his arms. Dad was nervous to go to his appointment the next week because he didn’t want to stay there again. It was harsh that year he sleepwalked out in the cold to go to town but couldn’t find the keys. Mom told everyone to get up and help find dad, so I looked outside and when I looked in the car there he was sleeping in the driver seat. With the doctor bills and all of the other stuff we are kind of broke.

But in the book Night Elie had went through the stage of depression mostly when his father died. After his father died in Buchenwald he still stayed there for a couple more months Elie was in a rough patch where nothing mattered anymore. “I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered. Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore.”

He could read at a college reading level in just second grade, but when it came to math he just couldn 't wrap his head around it. When it came to social situations he also struggled; he couldn 't look someone in the eyes, was afraid of any integration with a stranger, and couldn 't be in a crowded place without having a meltdown. All their life my siblings have been defined as odd. The world believes that they should not be given the chances us "normal" people receive. The world has never given them a chance to achieve greatness, it has only pushed them farther behind.

The importance of the title “Shiloh”, the short story by Bobbie Ann Mason, signals the story is all about Norma Jean and Leroy’s marriage falling apart after Leroy had an accident on his rig. Although he is almost fully recovered now, he is afraid to drive the rig again. That means that he is no longer the head of the household, and he begins to lose his identity as the provider. Truck drivers work long days and are normally always on the road only coming home for short periods of time. I think Leroy was just hardly ever home.

“Yet Dr. Shifrin says he has parents coming to him every day in his general practice struggling with the fact that their children “don’t come down and have dinner with the family, they don’t want to be with the family on the weekends, they don’t want go out with their friends, and their schoolwork is suffering and they don’t sleep,” (Kenworthy). Though Fahrenheit 451 used to be seen as a fictitious dystopian novel we are starting to see that his novel is starting to become a lot less fiction, and while Bradbury’s novel was published in 1953, yet more than sixty years later, it remains a relevant social

He was influenced by the wrong crowd at a certain age, but managed to get away from them and work on his study’s. Cedric’s mother was a single parent because Cedric’s father was in jail, so as cedric grew up his father wasn’t around. Cedric’s mother struggled plenty of times to pay the bills and keep the family going, but cedric still kept going with

As many hardships come about, Huck can’t dodge them anymore and he matures into a young man who even cares about others. Death affects many people in extremely different ways, and a drastic death may cause a drastic change within a person, particularly relating to adolescence and

Lastly I learned to be responsible for asking for help. Asking for help when I needed it was hard for me whether it was work or a lesson I did not understand. I am a shy person always has been always will be, I used to avoid asking teachers anything when I needed help. I did not want to seem like I was not smart or I wanted help but I was too afraid to ask.

I laid on the couch and wouldn’t talk, so my mom made me a hot pocket to make me feel better. I wasn’t hungry. That was the day I started experiencing depression. After two days I started back eating like normal and moving some, but life had gotten frustrating because I was not able to

When I first noticed my Step dad had problems with drinking I was about eleven years old during the time. Though I must admit it wasn 't a healthy place to be at the time I was living in Phoenix,Arizona with only my step dad 's family nearby to call and my mom, of course but at the time I couldn 't really expect help from her, at the time she was heavily addicted to gambling. Anywho it wasn 't a very healthy relationship. Though I was never physically abuse or anything like that I was emotional abuse having been a first born and having had a very shielded childhood. I was shocked of what was going on in my life when I turned twelve I decided that I wasn 't to live with my dad and his girlfriend.

Paul stayed at home for college, unwilling to "leave the fish he had not yet caught” which in reference to the unfinished business he had to catch up on. Paul on the other hand was the rebellious one of the two. After he decided to stay back home in Montana he becomes a well known news reporter. After spending much time alone away from Norman he starts to drink more, and some may say he became an alcoholic. Not only did he begin drinking more than usual, he was introduced to gambling, and it turned into a troubling addiction.

If college is supposed to be the next step in our lives, why is it so difficult to handle? We should be able to concentrate more on our work. This is just another example of us being kept down. If we are going to have enough courage to come to college and attempt to learn, they will punish us with cost and make sure we have to work to stay so we can’t do as well as we should.

Starting on the first day I arrived at the kennedy international airport in new york and I had no one to pick me up. I was sleeping in a pentecostal church for two months before I found an old school mate who housed and helped me get my papers. People in the U.S. were not very friendly as I thought. The foods were different and tasted different, everything was like 500 time more expensive, the weather was horrible especially winter. Several times during those initial years, I wanted to return home to Cameroon even though my family supported me from home financially and morally.

Starting middle school challenges any kid transitioning into a teenager. Simple small changes like going from cubbies to lockers excite students. Bigger changes like transitioning from one all day class to six individual classes and pluses and minuses to letter grades can leave some students shell-shocked with new responsibilities. I remember the struggle I had keeping up with all of this in my first year. I found social studies homework especially difficult for me.

There are many legal and ethical principles and standards one must acknowledge when becoming a professional addictions counselor. In the state of Pennsylvania, the State Board of Social Worker’s, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors oversees the process of obtaining a license and sets the requirements for doing so. This board has two levels of certification at both a Bachelor’s Degree level and a Master’s Degree level. In addition to the Pennsylvania Board’s requirements, professional addiction counselors must adhere to a specific code of ethics set by the NAADAC. Failure to adhere to these codes of ethics can lead to legal ramifications, punishments and/or loss of license.