I am sharing with you a paper I wrote last fall semester in my General Psychology class.

I had a topic of Conduct Disorder and had to write a Day in The Life paper. In this paper you will find yourself reading into what a childs life is like with conduct disorder. You will read a out the struggles at the home! at school! and the pu lic eye. In this paper it goes through the whole entire life of someone with conduct disorder. "fter reading this paper you will most likely e a le to pick out someone that this disorder may apply too. I chose to share this paper with you! ecause I think that Conduct Disorder awareness is important. I work in special education and the kid that I work with has Conduct Disorder among other things as well. #hen I did research to write this day in the life paper I was a le to find out things to help me help the child that I am with. #hen more people are aware of this disorder the etter we can help them. I en$oyed writing this paper! ecause it was interesting to me and I got to choose my topic which made it e%en etter and easier to write a out it! ecause I am interested in it. I made a &' on this paper. (granted it wasnt graded on grammar). I struggled hard in my psychology class! ut with this paper and my ig presentation I got to do I was a le to ring my grade up and pass. This paper is something I am proud to talk a out and will always e keeping.

Day in The Life* Conduct Disorder.

I feel as if no one lo%es me anymore. +y dad is in $ail and my mom lea%es me and my rothers and sisters at home y oursel%es all the time. I ne%er get any kind of positi%e attention from my mom or teachers. #hene%er I do get attention I get negati%e attention. #hen I go to school I,m the outcast and I always get into trou le. You could call me the terror of the classroom. "ll the kids make fun of me ecause I don,t do good in school. I hit the kids and tell them they are the stupid ones! and to lea%e me alone. +y social group is with the trou le makers or y myself. -ne time my class had a classroom pet! it was a rat. I swung that rat y its tail until someone gra ed me! that was only in the second grade.

.y my teens years I ha%e een placed into foster care and go from home to home. /o ody can put up with my outrageous eha%ior. 0inally someone gi%es me a chance and I get put into a lo%ing home with parents that care! ut Im still angry inside. +y new school kicked me out within the few weeks I had gone there. I went into the girls locker room and tried to make them kiss me. +y attitude towards authority had only gotten worse as my age progressed. +y mom has tried e%erything in her power to control me and all I do is re el. -ne time she locked me in my room and I ran away. +y parents were fed up with me when I %andali1ed a pu lic uilding! and I was arrested. +y parents decided to find out what they could do to treat my disorder. There were many drugs I could take to make me not so angry or depressed! ut what seemed to work etter was eha%ior counseling or family counseling. #e started the counseling sessions and family ones immediately. +y parents learned how to deal with my eha%ior the correct way and I learned to control myself around others. The councilor told us its etter to start at a younger age than an older age ut with the right attitude anything can e achie%ed. 2ometimes I look ack on my childhood and wonder if my iological mother and father had een around would I e this ad3 I struggle e%eryday with my disorder and try to control my urges. I am now an adult and I am not fully okay! ut I am etter than I was. I struggle with a mild depression and sometimes re%ert to drinking to ease my pain. I know that it isnt the right thing to do ut it seems to ease e%erything that has e%er went on with me. I still seek help from a councilor and they help me as much as

they can! ut in the end it is always up to me. If I want to change I ha%e to work at it e%eryday and not look at the past.