My Personal Experience: The Most Stressful Experience

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The most stressful experience for me started the end of the 2015 spring semester and ended towards the middle of July. During that time so much happened and it took a toll on me. In February my Grandma was diagnosed with cancer but I didn’t find out until the beginning of April. She didn’t want me any of us to worry so she told my aunt not to tell us. During that time I was working and trying to help my mom with the bills and I was in school online. I was also trying to live a normal life of a 20 year old. Eventually it all started to take a toll on me. I started to miss homework due dates. I didn’t have the time to study so I started to make low grades on exams and quizzes. Even though I was trying to save money, I always ended up spending it or having to give it to my mom to help her with the bills. …show more content…

I dropped four of my classes with W’s because I didn’t want to fail them. The other two that I kept were easier but I was too far off in one of them and made a D. The other I passed by the skin of my teeth with a C. Which brought down my GPA and mad me stress even more. I started drinking and going out to take the edge off. At the beginning of May my grandma had a surgery and I was told that she had to do some chemotherapy and she would be okay. A couple of week later I my mom broke the news to me that my grandma wasn’t better and that she was actually on her last days. At that point I was literally on my way to going off the deep end. I started to smoke marijuana and drink heavily. Unfortunately I didn’t get to go until the end of May. I stayed the weekend and I could barely look at her without breaking down. When it was time to go back home I knew that would be the last time I saw her. I just had a feeling she was waiting for me and my sister to say our good byes. My feeling was confirmed that Tuesday when my daddy called me telling me she was

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