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Essay: "Breakdown"

by Michael Jerome McKinney

And as I write this essay on the topic about breakdown, many thoughts and moments have come to my mind, about some of the times I have come to the moments of going through my breakdown stages. When I was 12 years old, my experience with breakdown came. February of 1983 my father big Mike, AKA Chief Crazy Horse, after being released from prison in December 1982 from Alabama State Prison, two months later was taken out by gun shots to the head and back. And hearing this was a big breakdown to me and this was somewhat a turning point in my life, cause my father was someone I did not spend much time with, and I had much love for him, and now he was going to be away from me forever. And this made me break down like I never broke down before, and this made me get wilder than I already was. I started getting locked up, and from this point as time went on many other break down stages took place in my life. I ended up in prison in the year of 1985 at the age 14 teen years old, with a few years to do in prison. And before I could get out of prison, in 1986 while being incarcerated in Bush Nell at a youth offender prison in Sumter County, known as the Baby Rock, I ended up running into someone I had grown up with, who just came off the streets and brought it to my attention that my mother had been going through some changes since I was locked up. She had been using drugs kind of heavy, and that really hurt me to hear something like that, cause I love my mother. So right then and there I broke down in tears and I was going through a break down in my mind cause many bad thought were going through my mind like a negative breakdown, and I wanted to go wild taking this out on anybody.