Affective disorder

Middle school is about hitting puberty, getting your first real boyfriend/ girlfriend, or even just making friends to begin your journey through life with. But for me, middle school was a wake up call to how awful life could really be. To begin the Dark Ages, sixth grade was full of fashion mistakes. Things like wearing my soccer warm-up to school every day and those I’m-a-girl-but-I’m-secretly-a-boy sport shorts. In seventh grade, I was eaten alive by my insecurities. Causing me to cake my face

Freshman year was the worst year of my life. I took up toxic habits, lied to the people closest to me, and became involved in destructive relationships. However, I eventually overcame all of this to become the person I am today. The story of the worst year of my life starts a year earlier – my eighth grade year. During eighth grade I began to struggle with many things. Self-esteem, friendships, romantic relationships, sexuality, and acceptance, just to name a few. At some point during that year

Imagine living on a planet where it doesn't stop raining for seven years, but then when it stops, it only stops for 2 hours. In the short story “ All Summer In A Day”, Margot is a girl who moved 5 years ago from Earth. In addition, the Earth is a planet, on Earth you can almost always see the sun. Margot moved to the planet of Venus, the planet where you can see the sun once every seven years for 2 hours. Margot is a girl who really loves the sun, and in Venus she is not able to see it or feel it

Much like most people, I have experienced a lot of sadness in my lifetime. For me, however, I feel like I end up sad more than 5 times a week. Sadness to me is being heartbroken, betrayed, and disappointed. It can also come when you have lost someone or something that means so much to you. One significant experience I have had, was when my heart was broken. I had been dating someone that I had liked since middle school and had been dating for more than 6 months. When one night we got into an argument

In the short story, “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield, a controlling boss is puzzled when he cannot weep over the death of his son. The boss enjoys being in power and in turn, sadistically murders an innocent fly. In “The Fly,” Mansfield tells a story of a controlling and prideful boss who cannot accept that he has moved on after his son’s death, while using symbolism to further explain the story. In the short story, the boss owns a strong business and relishes the fact that he is in control. Throughout

enjoy their life. Individuals these days very much indulge in themselves and are not spending adequate time with others. Research performed by scientists showed that isolation is one of the contributing causes of depression and other mental health disorders. People have begun to appreciate money and fame more than their own happiness which is causing their life to be empty and meaningless. In the poem “The Desert Places” by Robert Frost the narrator encounters loneliness and isolation and talks about

This is the first time I’ve ever talked about this subject in this detail in anyway to anyone, I feel like I’ve always struggled expressing myself in anyway and I hope by writing I can help myself in someway. I apologize if I get lost in my writing and go down a path that may be off topic, I couldn’t really help it and I hope you understand that this is a direct reflection my train of thought. I also ask that anything I write here be kept completely private, I’m am in no way asking for help and even

In the short story “Marigolds”, Eugenia Collier uses character development of the protagonist and mood to help the reader better understand that happiness doesn’t come from destroying one’s attempt at making beauty. Opening into the story, Collier uses mood to help the reader focus on the climax. The mood of the story starts out quite dim, dreary, and depressed. The narrator explains how she believes that God wasn’t accommodating and didn’t provide for them in the beginning of the story. Lizabeth

“ All summer in a day” Imagine living in a planet where it doesn't stop raining for seven years, but then when it stops, it only stops for 2 hours. In the short story “ All Summer In A Day”, Margot is a girl who moved years ago from Earth. The Earth is a planet, the planet where you can almost always see the sun. Margot moved to the planet of Venus, the planet where you can see the sun once every seven years. Margot is a girl who really loves the sun, and in Venus she is not able to see it or feel

The author from The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger utilizes motifs loneliness and depression to show how Holden a teenager from the book explains the struggles he had during the great depression. J.D. Salinger uses the motifs of loneliness and depression to illustrate the theme that when people feel lonely they try to connect with people to get rid of it. J.D. Salinger uses the motif of loneliness to show how Holden’s struggles affected him negatively and demonstrate what made Holden lonely