Torian Gilliam
Kate McLaughlin
English A
6/24/13
Lost And Found In the Psychosocial Dimension According to the famous writer Mark Twain, “The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting it”. Five maybe six Years ago I was Caught in an Emotional Distress Because of a bad relationship with my father and it affected my Psychosocial Dimension. The Psychosocial Dimension has 4 of the major six categories of a healthy life-style. If you master all four which include: Emotional, social, spiritual, and mental health. What I wanted was to develop a relationship with my father and to better my self as a Young man. , In order to do that I had to stay optimistic and try new things and also sacrifice the bad such as not having a great but respectful relationship with my step father and becoming a master in all four elements of the Psychosocial dimension. Growing up as a little boy, I always wanted to get my step father to like me very much but nothing I tried seemed to work. Sometimes When He would play his video games such as NFL Madden 2003 he would simply say “No”. That really hurt my feelings in which I just wanted someone to look up too. Often times I would even root for his favorite football team the Tennessee Titans when I was really a Green Bay Packer fan. I really wanted to develop a good relationship with my father because growing up as a young boy I didn’t have a father figure present. My father died in his sleep at the age of 40 due to a seizure in his sleep. I had no sense of direction or someone to look up too. But I wasn’t going to let that stop me from being survivor in this world .Throughout all my adversities and obstacles the people in my life today, along with taking responsibility for my actions and realizing someone is never going to just give u anything. U have to earn it, those things raised me into who I am today. For Example, at the age of fifteen I attended Paul Revere Middle School most games I