<p>Im trying to get into college for psychology and the personal statement question is this:</p>
<p>Please tell us something about yourself, your experiences, or activities that you believe would reflect positively on your ability to succeed at Penn State</p>
<p>If you could read my answer and let me know if this is good or not that would be great. Thank you</p>
<pre><code> Growing up, I didn't have what you would call a "happy family". My father was angry and my mother was shy. I could never understand what was wrong with either one of them. My father has been seen by a few psychologists and psychiatrists and has gotten a different diagnosis every time, all to no avail. None of the prescribed medicine worked. He was still angry and treated me the worst out of his four children, me and my three brothers. I would have to sit in his room on the floor watching him play his guitar or clean his room while he played on the computer. Any time I would ask my mom to help me get out of the room she would ask once and walk away. My mother has extreme social anxiety and would always pick going downstairs to watch television alone as apposed to having an argument to get me out of that room. I knew there was something wrong with my father and that he needed help so I started looking up symptoms on the school computers during lunch, trying to understand if he really was just a mean person or if he really was sick. I found many different things his problem could be, but I was only 15 so I couldn't confront him with my diagnosis that would have only been, " daddy I looked up your symptoms on the school computers, and your defiantly sick, but I'm not sure what with". I would have gotten in way to much trouble for that. But I tried to force myself to understand that he was sick and didn't mean to be this mean person to me and my family. Eventually, after I had left for the Military, he met this one psychologist who diagnosed him with Borderline Personality Disorder. My father was finally getting better with the medication he was getting and with being able to talk to his psychologist. My mother is now happier and becoming more social and I now have an 18 month old son whom I am proud to bring around my father. I know that I will succeed at Penn State because I am highly motivated due to my experience as a child. I aspire to be like my fathers current psychologist and help families become happy ones, hopefully sooner than my own personal experience.
</code></pre>