#CounselorsHelp

Counselors are a very affective tool that we should all utilize when we need them, but they don’t really get the credit that they deserve and I feel like they definitely deserve it. 

I have a friend name Johny  who has always been a really reserved to himself kind of guy. He doest say much in class and only speaks when he is forced to. I have know him since we were in kindergarten and are really close friends and have been hanging out since we were five years old until this day. This story is about how a counselor helped out my friend Johny. 

It was our junior year in high school and me and Johny would usually hangout pretty often like four to five times out of the week, but I remember the week before easter he started trying to avoid making plans to hangout or me going over or him coming to my place. I knew something was wrong but didn’t really want to ask and get all in his personal business so I decided to leave it at that and hope whatever he was going through would pass eventually. Well it didn’t. Johny stoped coming to church, he stoped coming over, he never wanted to play basketball anymore he just wanted to be left alone and be alone at home. Finally I went over to his house to talk to him and see whats up and his mom opened the door and she let me in. I was walking towards Johny room when his mom stoped me and told me he’s in his grandmas room. I walked to his grandmas room and knocked. He opened the door and was surprised at my being there, but when he opened the door I saw his grandma just laying on her bed looking almost lifeless surrounded with all sort of medication. He then told me that his grandma had acquired terminal cancer and that she didn’t have long to live. 

Later that week that I went to his house and found out about his grandma, she passed away on a Thursday and alfonso texted me about it and I knew he was going to take it hard. I tried to text him and hangout as much as possible but he almost never answered me. I remember at school one time he asked me if I could hold a bottle of painkillers for him because he was afraid he was going to take them all. I knew my friend needed some help and so I told him about going to the school counselor and he just laughed and said “i already feel dead there no reason to waste anyones time.” I Finally convinced him to go just one time to see if it would help and he agreed. 

He went and I didn’t see a difference at first and I expected that, i knew this was going to be a time consuming process if it was going to work. He continued to go to get help.  mrs.jordan the school counselor really helped out my friend and he started to talk to me about how he was feeling on certain days and he now wanted to get out of the house more often. He slowly started to become his old self again the friend I knew and I know for a fact if it weren’t for mrs.Jordans help he would of struggled a lot harder to find his old self again. Counselors are a great tool for people with not just psychological problems but all kinds of problems. We should be so grateful we have them and use them anytime we need them!