Comprehensive Development Autobiography: Laura Ledvina's Life

Comprehensive Development Autobiography All of the dark and dirty details about Laura Ledvina’s life, right here in an easy-to-read paper! My paper focuses on Erickson’s psychosocial development theory and broad areas such as: gender differences, role of stress, and parenting style. I will go through the life stages of: infancy, childhood, and adolescence, not early adulthood. In infancy I will discuss Erickson’s first problem of trust versus mistrust and my parents’ parenting style and the effect it had on me. From there, my childhood will be discussed by Erickson’s problems: autonomy versus shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, and industry versus inferiority. Also discussed in the childhood section will be my role in my family, effects
The role of stress in my adolescence has been overwhelmingly burdening. All of my depressive tendencies started surfacing and I had MANY suicidal thoughts throughout my adolescence. I had a lot of issues with friends. In middle school I had two mentally and emotionally abusive friends, they forced me to abandon my other friends and would gang up on me to make me feel bad. I had to go back to them afterward because they were my only friends and that cycle went on for about three years. I finally had enough and cut all ties with them after middle school. This is likely why I have very little patience for sketchy friends now. I went into high school without a friend in the world, besides my little kitty, Softy. I slowly started to build friendships with people my first year of high school, and started really taking an interest in getting a boyfriend. I had the notion that my body was grossly unattractive and developed an eating disorder from it. I lost about forty pounds that year, and eventually started eating more regularly. My first boyfriend and I had an unhealthy relationship. It was on and off, he pressured me into sex and all of the stress from that relationship strained my friendships. Eventually I told him that I could not do it any longer and cut him out of my life. I learned from the mistakes I made with him, but also am a bit mistrustful in relationships due to our poor
It is quite interesting to look at my life thus far and see how specific things helped me – or forced me – to develop. Every sad or hurtful thing included in this paper has given me a more positive quality in some way. I do not regret anything that I have done because it all has shaped me into the woman I am today, and I think that I like her. Parents play a tremendous role in how one develops, I see now why secure attachments are so important. Parents are the first line of defense when it comes to a person’s psychological well-being. If parents do not do a good job of protecting their child, it will lead to difficulties later in life. The role of stress and trauma are closely related in development, after all one cannot have trauma without stress. From writing this paper I have learned that it is the biggest heartaches that make you stronger as a person. And even though you may not see the positive impact of the people close to you on a day-to-day basis, they help shape you as a person. I am incredibly thankful for the few people who accept me for who I have become and will treasure them forever. I may be a fatherless “daddy’s girl,” but I will not let that stop me from striving to make him