Synopsis: This sono essay reflects on how I got to where I am today and how I became a confident and content individual. On the road to getting to where “here” is, I went through a very bad period of depression. Through the sono essay, I talk about how the dark path my mind wandered down during my senior year of High School and how it deterred me from enjoying my senior year and being excited for graduation and college. During this time of darkness and depression, my grandmother’s lung cancer spread to three parts of her brain and she was given less than a month to live. The sono essay talks about the wonderful relationship I had with my grandmother and how her diagnosis and eventual death affected my depression and my willingness to live. After her death, I became incredibly depressed and began to self harm and thought many times about ending my life and being with my grandmother. Through this sono essay, I explore how I became depressed, what progressed it, and how eventually the thought of what my grandmother would think of how my thoughts were veering, brought me back from the brink, and I became the content person I am now, today, here.
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Sweet Sixteen Candle Number Three Video. Kristen Harvey. 2011.
Manalapan High School Pep Ralley Video. Kristen Harvey. 2012.
Tattoo Video. Kristen Harvey. 2014.
Alumo. Spirit of Success. 2015.
Jorge Mendez. Cold. 2013.