Personal Essay: Anger Associated With Trauma

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Anger Associated with Trauma I had spent the night at a friend’s house and I couldn’t sleep so I called my mom to come get me and bring me home. On our way home I talked to her about how I wasn’t comfortable sleeping away from home and how it scared me. When we got home I rushed to the door because my grandma and my little sister Alyssa were waiting for me. As I opened the front door I could hear screaming and voices I had never heard before. My heart started racing and I couldn’t think about anything but that I wanted to see what was going on. I shoved the front door open and my mom rushed to be behind me. As we walked into the house I was my grandmother screaming at someone and hiding my little sister behind her. Alyssa looked terrified like she was being attacked. My mom …show more content…

I looked outside and saw my mom fall to her knees and cry as my grandma followed right behind her and did the same thing. I was as confused as to what was happening and where I was going but I looked at my sister and I grabbed her hand and said, “We are going to be ok”. We didn’t know where we were going, but we were soon to find out what it was like to be in the foster care system. Eleven years old and I had my first ride with a cop and it was the worst car ride of my life. I couldn’t breathe and the palm of my hands started to sweat. I couldn’t stop glaring at the back of the cops head and hating him for what he just did. That was the first time I had ever wished death on another human being. I constantly kept looking over and checking on Alyssa and making sure that she was ok. She was shaking and crying she was so scared and I kept wishing that I was strong enough so that I could comfort her but I couldn’t. I couldn’t find the words to say to her so and it killed me. Eventually we ended up at a building I had never seen before and the cop got out and opened my door then asked us to get out and prompted

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