The Greatest Challenge Of Depression During My Junior Year Of High School

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The greatest challenge I faced was depression during my junior year of high school. Little did I know that my life will become a roller coaster, and if I did not hold on tight enough I will fall. I was just starting college classes at the University of Minnesota even though I was just a high school student. I remembered the anxiety and excitement of this turning point in my life, but that was not the only change. A month before school starts my dad left and my mom was only seven months pregnant. Since we lost our only car too, it was a struggle taking the city buses to get to the stores. The hardships my mother and younger brothers faced felt so long ago. School starts and I thought everything will be fine since we were able to contacted my dad again. I just thought that all I have to do is held my head high. Going to school in the early morning I will look out the glass window while everything is moving passed feeling numbed. It felt like a nightmare that I could not step out of. It was only the second week of school and then my mom’s water broke. I was the only person that could ...

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