Personal Narrative: My Mental Health

When it comes to my mental health, I can honestly say so far in my personal life, I have never experienced with any severe mental health issues. I think that I am very unaware what people go through when they have a mental health issue and I would really like to know more about the different mental health problems. I know people that I am close with that have experience with mental health. My sister suffers from anxiety. I have a few cousins whom I am close with that have experience with mental health problems. One of my cousins suffers from the mental illness, anorexia. My sisters and I were very close to her when we were younger, but when her mental illness took over her life, she became a different person.

My experience with my cousin mental

In my community and school, mental health was never discussed until I was in high school, when I took a course in psychology and I learned about different mental illness, and I found many of them very interesting. One thing, I remember learning in high school was about Sybil and her mental illness. I do not think I am aware of the stigma associated with mental health issues in the circle that I travel in. I feel like in a way it is uncomfortable to talk about mental health, but also in a way it is not uncomfortable, because some people like to express what they are going through, and some people enhance the challenges they have in life. I think personally it is very uncomfortable, I know from experience, because people in my family tended to ignore the fact that someone was suffering from a mental illness, and do not want to talk about it. I think if I had mental illness I would be uncomfortable, because I was would feel like that people would judge me, because I am different and I would feel

It was actually this time last year that I feel like I experience a trauma, was when I was at Community College of Philadelphia, sitting in my math class and the school was on lockdown, because a student brought a gun to school and was actively running around the school. Sitting in a class for hours waiting to find out what was going on was terrifying. I kept looking at my classroom door, that did not have a lock on it to see if the shooter was at the door. I felt like I was in a movie. I was in so much shock and fear that I did not think I was going to make it out of school alive. After, this event happened, I was in fear for about a month, I feared going school. I had anxiety for about a month, about going to school, because I fear that my life was at risk. Another time, I experience trauma was when I was in a car accident, I was on a septa bus and a car hit the bus and my sister was severely injured. She had to get fifteen to twenty in her head. Even though I did not get severely injured, seeing my sister get hurt was painful for me to see. I also, got major anxiety about going on a septa bus, I feared everyday taking the bus to school in high