Assignment 10

I am afraid of being sick. Honestly. I am always sick, and it scares me. Even when I'm not "sick" I don’t feel as healthy as I should. It's not normal for someone to be sick as often as I am, at least when I'm compared to my peers.  I am afraid that this will never go away, that I will be this sort of on-and-off sick that I have been for the past two and a half years. My family and I have been to doctors, trying to understand why I am sick, but we really have gotten no answers. In my unprofessional experience, I believe something about high school (whether it be the building itself or something else) is what makes me sick. I was never sick like this in elementary or middle school, (or even sick at all really, once I got to the age of six,) only going to the doctor when I needed to get shots or a check-up. The only way I (optimistically) can see myself not being sick anymore is to leave high school. And the only way I am going to do that is to graduate, so it looks like I am going to be sick for another year and a half. But every time I feel like I am going to be sick, I can feel myself slacking on my responsibilities, so I can sleep more, which is supposed to help with being sick, but it doesn’t seem to help either with my health or  my responsibilities. I guess my fear of being sick isn't quite like the fear some people might have of heights, or of snakes or spiders, but it is the fear I am faced with most often.