Thursday, January 29, 2009

My anger, anxiety, and depression...

     Now, my teacher wants me to write about my anger, anxiety, and depression. First, I will be writing about my anger, second, I will be writing about my anxiety, and last but not least, depression. Well, here goes nothing, how do I get angry? I get angry if other people bother me, not passing my grades, not traveling to other villages for basketball, getting detentions, being gossiped by people, my younger siblings doing what there not suppose to be doing or doing, people messing with my family, doing too much school works, not understanding what teachers are trying to teach me, not getting enough sleep, my brothers saying that I do nothing, having pimples, and much more to come.

    What makes me have anxiety? Well, I don’t really know what anxiety means cause I was raised to the people who spoken nothing but pure Yupik (Eskimo) language. I’m just going to use my notes from my teacher who was teaching us what it meant. How do I get anxiety? I get anxiety by thinking of terrible things that will happen, and fearing of something real and imagining it. What makes me have depression? How do I get depression? I get depression by doing too much works in my school, not sleeping in school, doing chores, people putting me down in there own words, and seeing my family sad, crying, being heavy burden, heart broken, being in sorrow and misery. That is all I have in mind to write about but, if there were more in mind, I’d write them down if I knew more about anger, anxiety, and depression.  

Monday, January 26, 2009

Mental Health

Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to my blog spot. First of all, I want to introduce myself. My name is Garrick Amik and my friends and family calls me Angilan my Yupik name (Eskimo name). I was born in Bethel Alaska at August 24, 1990 and my parents’ names are John Luther Amik and Molly Mary Dock Amik. I am now 18 years and am in eleventh grade. I have 8 brothers but one is adopted to my step uncle and 4 sisters. One was suppose to be here but my mom had a miscarriage and it was suppose to be the oldest of us all but now, he or she is happy in heaven waiting for us to get old and die and be with the lord some day, but that is unknown because GOD will judge us all and put us where we deserve to be.

     Enough about my family and I. Now, I am going to be talking about my mental health. It is going to be about my positive attitude, negative attitude, stressed out, and how I help myself get out of the situation I am in. What makes me have a positive attitude? The things that make me have positive attitudes are having enough sleep, eating nutritious foods, passing my classes, making things okay, helping people who are in need of help, listening to gospel music, going to church, hanging around with friends, making my parents happy, making people enjoying their lives by treating them okay and teasing them, and making good decisions. What makes me have a bad attitude? The things that make me have a bad attitudes are not getting enough sleep, not eating nutritious foods, not passing my classes, having a detention, people treating me like I’m nothing, people who bully people, forgetting things, not helping people, people who judge me and my families, and people who bother me whenever I’m trying to work in my classes. 

     What makes me stressed out? The things that make me stressed out are waking up early for school, being late, not eating, people who talk trash about me and my families, people not listening to me whenever I tell them to do something, not finishing my home works, not eligible for sports, and people who bother me whenever I’m trying to go to sleep. How do I help myself when I am in stress and bad attitude mood? The things that help me are talking to a adult or a family, thinking of good things, working out hard, going to church, asking help from GOD, and going to church services.