Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Take Home Test # 3Depression

Depression

Trevor was 29 years old; he lived in a big house with his brother. He was alone because her wife had died three months ago. People saw him, and noticed that he was suffering of depression. Everybody who saw him can see that he was very sad, had loss of interest in activities that he did in he past, always talked about what happened with his wife the day she died and categorized himself as being a failure. He always looked tired, had memory problems and had frequent thoughts on suicide. Whenever he talked with the neighbors he was always saying that its fault his wife is dead and he wanted to go with her. Whenever his brother wanted them to go out fishing and hunting, Trevor always said no and that was what he liked to do. Also whenever he was alone with his brother he said that he wants to commit suicide and see his wife, when he said it he spoke very low and had sloe body movements. While was in that manner he always wanted to drink to forget his memories and also wanted to use drugs to forget what happen with his family. Also all of his ways of thinking and speaking he wanted to commit suicide. Trevor was hospitalized for depression since his wife past away in a car accident. The passing away of his wife kept him like that.

Anorexia Nervosa

Gladys was her name, she was 20 years old and all what she did was to talk about her size and shape. Gladys tells her friends that she’s very thin, but she wants to be thinner. She spends a lot of time talking about how fat she is, especially in her stomach and thighs. She only eats once a day and is careful not to eat any foods that might have fat in them. She constantly counts calories and fat grams in food. She did excessive exercising per day and her friends knew what is happening to her and tried to help her but she insists that she is fat. Even though she is very thin; but she doesn’t see it in that way. Because of what she was doing her friends advised her about the death issue if she doesn’t eat, but she didn’t care. She also will be going to suffer digestive problems since she didn’t eat much. She might probably have kidney damage. Gladys was suffering from anorexia since she had low self esteem and her family was going through a divorce at that time.

Bulimia

Melanie, a 2nd former from Technical, loved parties especially when she discovered her own answer to weight control. After gulping down several pastries and cupcakes and an entire bag of chips she slipped into the bathroom and made herself throw up. It was the principle give and take between her inability to control her eating and her desire to lose weight. But after several months of eating a lot, followed by self induced vomiting, Melanie’s throat hurt constantly and her dentist urged her to brush more thoroughly because her teeth were in poor condition. Worse, she could neither stop her eating nor keep her food in her stomach after a normal meal. Her friends advised her to stop fasting but whenever she ate she had to vomit. She also drank a lot and liked to smoke. Melanie’s friends said for her to check a doctor because it looked like if she had depression and digestive problems that would affect her later on. Also her menstruation cycle was cut since she was fasting too much. Melanie was suffering form bulimia because all what she cared about was her weight and shape. Also Melanie’s sister was hospitalized for bulimia and a suicide attempt when Melanie was younger.

Muscular Dysmorphia

Alberto is a student from ITVET, O.Walk town. He is 19 years, and as he reaches home from 3:00 pm he starts to lift weight until 9:00 pm he finishes. No matter how much Alberto trains he never feels big enough. When his friends go to his house, they get really bored on seeing him doing his exercise and every time he goes and check himself in the mirror. Alberto only eats certain types of food, which don’t bring a lot of body fat. As I pass by his house I always see him straining himself to lift lot of weight. As time goes by Alberto will more than likely develop other health disorder such as bulimia since he only eats certain thing. Also he will fall in the temptation of using steroids and will cause him side effects that will damage his body. More than likely Alberto will definitely have a low self esteem. Alberto falls into this over exercising ladder when he was in high school. His classmates always teased him scrawny hands, short boy and negative names. He then saw the picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger and decided to lift weights until eventually he got obsessed with it that over exercised too much.

Self-injury

Elizabeth was a student from Technical High school. She had a lot of scars in her hand. My friend told me that Elizabeth always carried a blade to school. Also that she always reach to school with bruises and she claimed that she got it from accidents. One day she was sent to the office because she had many bruises. The principal called her parent and her mother said that dropped form her bicycle, even though she didn’t knew what her daughter had. Her friends saw that Elizabeth was cutting her self with the blade and just laughing at it. They told her something was wrong with her and to go and check the doctor. One of her male friends stated that she might have been suffering of self-injury. But she didn’t care; she said that she found pleasure in cutting herself. Her friends told her that she could be suffering later on with complications such as infection by cutting herself too much and not medicating. Also she might be thinking of suicide since she doesn’t feel the pain, and this could lead to life threatening cuts, broken bones and injury. Elizabeth found pleasure in cutting herself since her father had died and she wanted to punish herself for being a bad girl to her father and she could not cope with her emotions.

Take Home Test # 3

Depression

Trevor was 29 years old; he lived in a big house with his brother. He was alone because her wife had died three months ago. People saw him, and noticed that he was suffering of depression. Everybody who saw him can see that he was very sad, had loss of interest in activities that he did in he past, always talked about what happened with his wife the day she died and categorized himself as being a failure. He always looked tired, had memory problems and had frequent thoughts on suicide. Whenever he talked with the neighbors he was always saying that its fault his wife is dead and he wanted to go with her. Whenever his brother wanted them to go out fishing and hunting, Trevor always said no and that was what he liked to do. Also whenever he was alone with his brother he said that he wants to commit suicide and see his wife, when he said it he spoke very low and had sloe body movements. While was in that manner he always wanted to drink to forget his memories and also wanted to use drugs to forget what happen with his family. Also all of his ways of thinking and speaking he wanted to commit suicide. Trevor was hospitalized for depression since his wife past away in a car accident. The passing away of his wife kept him like that.

Anorexia Nervosa

Gladys was her name, she was 20 years old and all what she did was to talk about her size and shape. Gladys tells her friends that she’s very thin, but she wants to be thinner. She spends a lot of time talking about how fat she is, especially in her stomach and thighs. She only eats once a day and is careful not to eat any foods that might have fat in them. She constantly counts calories and fat grams in food. She did excessive exercising per day and her friends knew what is happening to her and tried to help her but she insists that she is fat. Even though she is very thin; but she doesn’t see it in that way. Because of what she was doing her friends advised her about the death issue if she doesn’t eat, but she didn’t care. She also will be going to suffer digestive problems since she didn’t eat much. She might probably have kidney damage. Gladys was suffering from anorexia since she had low self esteem and her family was going through a divorce at that time.

Bulimia

Melanie, a 2nd former from Technical, loved parties especially when she discovered her own answer to weight control. After gulping down several pastries and cupcakes and an entire bag of chips she slipped into the bathroom and made herself throw up. It was the principle give and take between her inability to control her eating and her desire to lose weight. But after several months of eating a lot, followed by self induced vomiting, Melanie’s throat hurt constantly and her dentist urged her to brush more thoroughly because her teeth were in poor condition. Worse, she could neither stop her eating nor keep her food in her stomach after a normal meal. Her friends advised her to stop fasting but whenever she ate she had to vomit. She also drank a lot and liked to smoke. Melanie’s friends said for her to check a doctor because it looked like if she had depression and digestive problems that would affect her later on. Also her menstruation cycle was cut since she was fasting too much. Melanie was suffering form bulimia because all what she cared about was her weight and shape. Also Melanie’s sister was hospitalized for bulimia and a suicide attempt when Melanie was younger.

Muscular Dysmorphia

Alberto is a student from ITVET, O.Walk town. He is 19 years, and as he reaches home from 3:00 pm he starts to lift weight until 9:00 pm he finishes. No matter how much Alberto trains he never feels big enough. When his friends go to his house, they get really bored on seeing him doing his exercise and every time he goes and check himself in the mirror. Alberto only eats certain types of food, which don’t bring a lot of body fat. As I pass by his house I always see him straining himself to lift lot of weight. As time goes by Alberto will more than likely develop other health disorder such as bulimia since he only eats certain thing. Also he will fall in the temptation of using steroids and will cause him side effects that will damage his body. More than likely Alberto will definitely have a low self esteem. Alberto falls into this over exercising ladder when he was in high school. His classmates always teased him scrawny hands, short boy and negative names. He then saw the picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger and decided to lift weights until eventually he got obsessed with it that over exercised too much.


Self-injury

Elizabeth was a student from Technical High school. She had a lot of scars in her hand. My friend told me that Elizabeth always carried a blade to school. Also that she always reach to school with bruises and she claimed that she got it from accidents. One day she was sent to the office because she had many bruises. The principal called her parent and her mother said that dropped form her bicycle, even though she didn’t knew what her daughter had. Her friends saw that Elizabeth was cutting her self with the blade and just laughing at it. They told her something was wrong with her and to go and check the doctor. One of her male friends stated that she might have been suffering of self-injury. But she didn’t care; she said that she found pleasure in cutting herself. Her friends told her that she could be suffering later on with complications such as infection by cutting herself too much and not medicating. Also she might be thinking of suicide since she doesn’t feel the pain, and this could lead to life threatening cuts, broken bones and injury. Elizabeth found pleasure in cutting herself since her father had died and she wanted to punish herself for being a bad girl to her father and she could not cope with her emotions.


Completed Autobiography

Completed Autobiography



Well, what can I say about myself? Describing “myself” can be difficult since I have many personal experiences and many unbelievable incidents and beside my personality is quite genuine. My name is Israel Canul, born on April 28, 1991 at 10:45 p.m. My parents Mrs. Danita and Remijio Canul, described me as being a miniature brunette Chihuahua with a lot of molds on my back. But anyways let’s talk about my teen years. Presently I’ m 18 years and I do regard myself as an adult since I protect my siblings. I also consider myself as a grown up since I always remember about my moments; heartbreaking, terrifying, cheerful and life changing moments. I have experience all these moments while growing up, but I still don’t give up but rather I try my best to fix what I did wrong in the past and try to make it better in the future. Throughout my life I have accredited many honors as well as punishments. While growing up I have had many experience, one of the first was the day when I saw that my father was choking. It was a brilliant and hot Easter Sunday, we all went to Playa Blanca for our Easter vacation. We were all having a good time when suddenly one of my aunts started to scream in a very heartbreaking way. We all ran to her aid, when we reached the scene we saw my father turning blue. I got really frightened since I thought that my father was going to die. Luckily my father didn’t die, and this was a really terrifying experience. But I will never forget the day when I met my girlfriend. I went to a party with my friend and he introduced me to her. We danced the whole night and when we finished dancing I walked her home. When we reached to her house she just kissed me and I was so surprised but it was a good sign to begin with. This was a very wonderful moment and a very unforgettable experience. I experienced all of these situations even one of the most frightening experience. This also had to do with my crazy-head friends. We were driving to Chetumal and we were under the influence of alcohol. My friend was driving at a very high speed when suddenly he lost control of the vehicle and we drove right into the canfields. Luckily nobody was injured but after this happened wee decided to just return home. This was really scary. Gloomy moments come and go but I will never forget the time when my mother and my father caught in this argument where they were going to get divorced. My father was cheating on my mother and she found out. She had already heard comments on that but she just ignored, but one day she saw my father with the lady and she just went home and cry. They were separated for many weeks and I prayed to God each day so everything would just settle down. Luckily everything was calmed down and right no my parents are together. This was a really cheerless moment in my life. The most embarrassing moment of my life was when my father scolded me in front of my girlfriend and all my friends. We were all in a disco when suddenly I was approached by my father. Suddenly he just stared to scold me and curse me. This was so embarrassing that I just decided to take my girlfriend to her house and then go home and sleep. I will never forget this since my friends still remind me about it sometimes. One of my life changing moments was when my father was arrested for committing murder; even though he didn’t do it, he was still punished for it. He was in prison for eight months and one week, and his trial finished by recognizing him and my cousins as not guilty, but he spent some time in that place. This made him and I realize that sometimes things just have to happen in order for you to learn your lesson. But I have strong persons that influence me in whatever I do, my parents. My parents encourage me in whatever I decide to do. They are my most strong encouragers and the most honored role models. Even though I back answer them they still love me. Besides my parents I also have a football player that I refer to as my “idol”. His name is Cristiano Ronaldo, a Real Madrid player. He influences me a lot because someday I dream of being a famous football player that would be recognized throughout the world. I love playing football since I have received a MVP award and best scorer awards. And even though I have gone through all of these circumstances while growing up, I still don’t give up but rather I pray to God everyday so as for him to give me the potency and blessings for me to continue living life peacefully.

Well then what can I say, my life is a milestone story hence making me experience many things and making me acquire different skills, likings and dislikes. This writing is a continuation of my previous autobiography. I have many things that I like and dislikes. The things that I like include driving around the village, text a lot with my friends especially my girlfriend, play football, and swim. I love to eat, and party with my friends; in a safe manner. I dislike nay things such as eating escabeche, the scolding of my parents just because of silly things. The thing that I hate the most is that when my other siblings shout at my parents and they don’t even bother to scold them. I dislike when they foul me when I am playing football and then the referee doesn’t blow the whistle. I dislike waking up early to go to school. My favorite hobbies comprise of: playing football, chatting, texting and especially and especially chilling with my girlfriend. I’m a very versatile person always doing things that I love to do. These include swimming, dancing, using virtual DJ, playing football and especially doing body building. I have a very diverse characteristic which include always giving jokes, always participating in sport events and most of all studying. Everybody has strengths and weaknesses. My strengths include being very respectful and I’m a very good football player since that is my favorite hobby. My weaknesses include that I’m always influenced by my friends especially in the drinking part. I’m a very impatient person and my parents and my friends tell me that that is my strongest weakness, being very impatient. Also my parents and girlfriend tell me that when they scold me I tend to be very ignorant, hence then they tell me that that is one of my weaknesses. The one that I classify as my most hard-hitting weakness is that when I’m frustrated, I tend to be very panicky when I’ m with a girl. How can I use my strengths? First of all playing football gives me confidence me to have a high self-esteem in that it encourages me to someday becoming a very important and famous football player. I have my strengths so as to always help me strive for excellence. How can I improve my weakness? Trying to improve my weaknesses may sound kind of difficult but I know that with the help of God, family and friends I can improve it. I can improve being impatient in that when I’m waiting I can do something in order for me not to get bored and eventually leading to impatience. I always try to not fall in temptation from my friends but I always end up falling. I can improve that in the way that whenever they try to do me this I would just ignore them and I maybe leave them alone. My current role in my family is taking care of my siblings especially my two sisters and also to do all the errands there is to do, since I’m the oldest.



“Who I will be,” that’s a really good question to ask myself, because I don’t know what will happen later in the future since God is the only one that knows everything. I know that even though it may sound difficult to answer such questions, I already have an ambition in life. I have some goals, and my main goal for the future is to get a good job in order for my salary to be very satisfying. Another goal of mines is to build a house, buy my needs and wants, and the most important one is to help my parents pay their loan to the bank. My ultimate goal is to get a loving and caring wife and live happy with my family. I can also say that I have dreams for the future, and my first dream is to go to Spain and see my favorite football team; Real Madrid. I want to see play my favorite player, Cristiano Ronaldo Dos Santos Avierro. Every time that I see him play, I get deeply inspired. Traveling and giving a tour around the world is one of my next goals I have set in life. Responsibilities are present through out life. My key role in the future is to be a very independent person. I plan to get a good job and work to the best of my ability, help my parents and myself. I also plan to be a good father: if I ever have children. But my major role for the future is to be and independent person and work hard to buy my things and help out my family. I plan to work in the Immigration Department as an immigration officer. I had work at the orange Walk office for two months and I really liked it, also my boss told me whenever I finish study to see her if I still wanted to be an immigration officer. What would be the path to get there? Dedication and responsibility will be the major route to get to wherever I want to get. To think on what I’m going to do before I do it, is a next route heading to my path to success. Some obstacles that would stop me of doing the things would be being disobedient and not following my heart. How will I change the world, well by doing the right and positive decisions and always being responsible I can make a difference in the world and influence others to do the right choice.