Loss Timeline

After the terrorist attacks on September 11, my sense of the world was shaken. At the time of the attacks, I was ten years old, turning eleven the next month. I was in the fifth grade.

After high school, I moved out of my parents' home and left for college. I never moved back home and this is the mark of the end of my childhood. I was eighteen years old.

After I graduated college, I lost my college years and being carefree. I had sense that the "real world" was right around the corner and that I could no longer be a "college kid". I was twenty-two years old.

During this time, I began developing signs and symptoms of depression. I have always been a generally happy person, but I no longer felt a sense of happiness or a sense of who I was without that happiness.

This loss occurred the summer before my senior year of high school due to us drifting apart. I was seventeen years old.

During the beginning of the fall semester of sophomore year in college, I lost my good friend from freshman year due to a misunderstanding. I was eighteen years old.

This loss of a friendship occurred during the spring semester of my senior year of college. I was twenty-two years old.

This was the loss after my first romantic relationship. It was the summer before I left for college. I was eighteen years old.

This is the loss of my second romantic relationship. I was nineteen years old.

This is the loss of my third, and most serious, romantic relationship. This loss occurred during the fall semester of my junior year of college; I was twenty years old.