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Descriptive Essay About Oxygen Thief

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The Oxygen Thief

The smell of death and sadness lingered over my shoulders lie a monster whispering all my deepest fears in my ears. Tan and navy blue coated the bland walls, the same blank wall my empty eyes stared at while my mother spoke to a doctor. The doctor’s voice was sickening to my core and her words burned like a Californian wildfire. Hearing that my pitiful life would be held captive with other sad souls made my veins go cold and heart go bloodless yet still beating so hard that my body might shatter. This is the story of how my life changed forever; my life spent in a revolving hell fire, constantly being oxygen deprived and burnt beyond recognition. When you look at my life from the outer-shell, it’s not that bad. I …show more content…

Only I mistook a smile for as a scowl, my brain convinced me that I was so unwanted that it also convinced me that everyone else felt the same way about me. Depression was like an anchor, slowly tugging me down into the ocean. It 's like swimming one day, then suddenly, I got pulled under into the dark blue lunch crushing water away from everyone else. I could breathe but just enough to survive and every time I tried to swim upwards an anchor is tied to my ankles. I could see everyone else around me and every time I tried to scream only water poured into my mouth so I never spoke. Then one day I could swim upwards just enough to poke my dazed head up above the tide. Then the anchor pulled me down farther than before and no matter how hard I swam, I couldn 't move. Eventually I gave up. I sat there in the water, eyes shut. Ready to stop breathing and just drown. Sitting in a room, behind a mahogany Corloured table with kids circled around it in a swivel chair, I noticed something. The words coming from their mouths were never harsh, they were delicate like a feather landing on a motionless ocean. I wanted to take their actions and make them into mine, I was recovering, the medications I was on were dissolving in my brain. The thoughts I programmed to reoccur in my mind every hour of the day didn’t dissolve as quickly and taunted my ears more than ever. My mind was almost split in half, I was neurotic and beyond reason. Until it happened. I

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