Personal Narrative: My Personal Experience With Addiction

I don’t let on a whole lot about some of the things that happen in my home life because it never seemed appropriate or necessary in anyway, I never even really told my friends about it. My problems at home consisted of one family member who suffers from bipolar disorder. If that wasn’t enough of a strain, another problem was the fact that another person who is very close to me had a problem with addiction. I have had to deal with this kind of stuff since a young age and even if you get used to it, it weighs down on you until it becomes unbearable.
I had a breaking point sometime during my sophomore year, the pressure to succeed in school on top of what was happening at home caused me to start crying during a class and I was sent to the counselor’s