Interpersonal Communication Journal Paper
1. The services that I did my placement with share the space with a service that give people help them get of drugs and they come up to get there shots from the doctor. Nothing had really happened to me personally but I feared them because I knew they were on drugs and didn’t know what they were capable of. I was feeling very uncomfortable and was constantly looking over my shoulder and it was a bad experience sharing the space because I wasn’t aware of what could take place and I had never seen a facility like that.
2. I choose this for my journal because I feel like this is something that I need to overcome because I know that I will work for an organization that may have young people who have substance abuse issues. Yes! My mamma always tell me that just because someone looks or dresses a type of way it shouldn’t make them scary and I shouldn’t fear them. I felt bad away the way I was feeling inside but I couldn’t help it only because most of them were grown men and I kept thinking if something happened to me who was going to help get a man of a ting girl. The reason I felt the way I did is because I have seen someone under substance abuse hurt someone. …show more content…
I spent the entire day looking over my shoulder and feeling uncomfortable which didn’t allow me to focus on the tasks at hand and I didn’t feel comfortable telling my colleagues how I was feeling cause I was embarrassed of what they would think of me, if I’m being completely honest. I see myself as a youth worker still learning how to get over obstacles that I face within myself. An implication would be that I should have or could have expressed how I was feeling with my colleagues.
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5. What sort of thing could I have done to calm my
2. I choose this for my journal because I feel like this is something that I need to overcome because I know that I will work for an organization that may have young people who have substance abuse issues. Yes! My mamma always tell me that just because someone looks or dresses a type of way it shouldn’t make them scary and I shouldn’t fear them. I felt bad away the way I was feeling inside but I couldn’t help it only because most of them were grown men and I kept thinking if something happened to me who was going to help get a man of a ting girl. The reason I felt the way I did is because I have seen someone under substance abuse hurt someone. …show more content…
I spent the entire day looking over my shoulder and feeling uncomfortable which didn’t allow me to focus on the tasks at hand and I didn’t feel comfortable telling my colleagues how I was feeling cause I was embarrassed of what they would think of me, if I’m being completely honest. I see myself as a youth worker still learning how to get over obstacles that I face within myself. An implication would be that I should have or could have expressed how I was feeling with my colleagues.
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5. What sort of thing could I have done to calm my