Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer: A Personal Analysis

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Everyone has struggles and challenges in their lives that they're trying to overcome and accomplish. Having to deal with mental illness on a daily basis affects one's ability to be “normal” and have a social life is my challenge. I deal with depression and anxiety, from time to time i'll have my anxiety attacks and depression will hit me like bullet out of nowhere. It has gotten so deficient to the point where throughout my four years of highschool I miss so many school days because I can't feel anything, my mind goes absolutely blank and not even therapy can help, that I can't get up to go to school. As in the story told,“there was no little oxygen reaching my brain..”(Krakauer 218).That is how it feels when both anxiety and depression hits. …show more content…

However, I picked myself up and by the help of others, I promised myself that I will overcome this illness and become the successful person I want to be. I am not going to ignore my problem but I am gonna fight it, as in the story from Into Thin Air stated the author, “I sat down to marshall my energy” (Krakauer 224). And that exactly what I did.Even if i did miss days, I still managed to pass all my classes i wasn't going to give up that easy. Some of the sacrifices i've made was to cut off some time of watching television, hanging out late at night with my family. Making sacrifices is a huge step to receiving what it is a person really wants and it is also a huge step of growing up. I am ready to become an adult in this world and i won't try to be successful i will be successful. “ I want to get this thing done and out of my life…” (Krakauer 226). I use this example from the story because it's exactly how i feel about this condition, I want to overcome

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