Its my first draft and it neeeds a lot of help
The essay topic I chose to write is about lessons I learned from obstacles that can be fundamental to my later success. It would make sense for me to talk about how I persevered through the past years dealing with my mental health challenges and that although you couldn’t see it, the pain and the hurt was there. Going through each day was difficult. I pretended that things were okay until they weren’t. I suffer from Clinical Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder which became pronounced in my first year of high school. I began seeing my psychologist in April of my freshman year and my psychiatrist that June. Over the next three years, I was hospitalized and in intensive outpatient programs three times. I worked on my coping skills and communications and without the help of the health care provider that supported me through these difficult times, I wouldn’t be in the place I am today. My mental health would be preventing me from even applying to college which I want to attend. I appreciate everything my therapist, psychiatrist, clinician, nurses, and doctors have done for me and my family. I’ve missed many opportunities that I would have liked to experience because of my diagnoses and I would like to resist and encounter this new initiative. I want to make a new name for myself and see a new version of myself in my own mirror. I have a tremendous amount of appreciation, gratitude and admiration for my team of supporters. But that’s not what I want to focus on. What I am writing about about the challenges that I want to face in the future. For all four years of high school, mental health has been the focus and I absolutely resent it. Everyones faces challenges in life whether they are your choice or not. I would rather choose my challenges. Dealing with mental health was not my choice. Going to therapeutic school for my senior year was a choice I had to make in order to better prepare myself for college. I had to deal with these challenges because I wouldn’t have survived if I didn’t. I understand that college is difficult and challenging but this is one that I am choosing. I want the cramming for the test and pulling all nighters. I want to focus my stress into something productive and healthy, not to say that focusing on mental health is unhealthy. By doing this I will get to reach my goal of entering the medical field. I am extremely interested in the medical field because I find it important to give back. The medical field is competitive and rigorous which I am excited to get into because I want to give back because of the medical professionals that assisted and continue to assist me sustained in order to be able to aid those in need.