6 Days Ago Sara Fresquez Re: Discussion - Week

6 days agoSara Fresquez RE: Discussion - Week 5COLLAPSETop of FormAlthough a very personal answer, I feel it’s important to communicate the truth on how I learned to express my emotions’. I’m sure for the most part, teenagers’ have been expressive since the beginning of human creation. As a child growing up, I was bullied by school mates and greatly abused by my older sister. I cried a lot as I didn’t know how to speak to my sister because she only mocked me, ignored me or would say something harsher than her last words. Bullies at school would gang up on me by the handful with no friends’ to stand up for me and/or comfort me. At that point I learned how to scream in anger and pain. I began to lash out and aggressively respond to everything and everyone. When I was placed into counseling, I began to work with an anglo-saxon counselor. Her tools were something beyond my comprehension. I bring up her ethnicity because in each culture, there’s always a way to handle crisis and negative situations’. In mine, it was the silent treatment or yelling. Because of my continuous attendance in counseling,