Essay About Jose Chavez

Jose Chavez is a 25-year-old Latino man who served in the Afghanistan war. Jose was born in Montebello, Ca and later moved to Lancaster, California in his pre-teen years due to the divorce of his parents. Jose grew up as a normal child as any with the circumstances he was given of a divorced family. Jose lived with his Dad, Step-Mother, sister, step-sister and nephew in Lancaster, Ca. In high school Jose ran into some issues with school performance not due to lack of intelligence consequently resulting from the divorce of his parents. Jose’s mother lived in Walnut, Ca whom he only saw every other weekend. Jose’s biological mother was an overprotective mother growing up who would coddle him due to being the only boy, Juan has three older sisters. As in many families there were conflicts amongst

The conflicts caused the family to divide eventually causing more stress on Jose to isolate himself. Regardless of what concerns the family had Jose proposed to his new girlfriend. Jose did not have much family support around which meant the family was not aware of all the events happening with Jose. The only support Jose found was from his fiancé and her family. The close relationship with his daughter was dwindling and was starting to affect his life. Once married everything took the turn for the worse resulting in more anger outburst, depression, medication modifications, insomnia, job loss and complete isolation from the family and therapy sessions were non-existent. Consistent anxiety attacks and trips to the emergency room were being becoming more and more frequent. Jose eventually at one point was not sleeping very much which was due to the combat nightmares he would encounter. Recurring images of traumatic experiences kept haunting Jose. Once Jose did sleep it was very hard to wake him up due to the combat reaction he would display of ready to