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Submitted By jissa
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Adjustment for me was never easy, since I was a child I made a lot of adjustments in myself, my surroundings how I should feel and think when some people are around or I am being threatened by other’s presence.
Before I start my autobiography on how I made adjustments in my life let me define the word ”adjustment” first. According to my sources adjustment, in psychology, the behavioral process by which humans and other animals maintain equilibrium among their various needs or between their needs and the obstacles of their environments. A sequence of adjustment begins when a need is felt and ends when it is satisfied. Hungry people, for example, are stimulated by their physiological state to seek food. When they eat, they reduce the stimulating condition that impelled them to activity, and they are thereby adjusted to this particular need, or it Can be defined as the behavioral process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment. Humans and animals regularly do this, for example, when they are stimulated by their physiological state to seek food, they eat (if possible) to reduce their hunger and thus adjust to the hunger stimulus. I learned that adjustment disorder occurs when there is an inability to make a normal adjustment to some need or stress in the environment.
As far as I can remember, my first adjustment as a child was, when I was about 2 or 3 years old my father always goes to Palawan for a couple of days or weeks perhaps. When he arrives at home, he would rest for only a brief moment and the next thing I knew is he would be gone again and go to his peers and have their drinking session and he would go home already drunk. I’m not used that my father is always not with me like he used to, caring for me, cuddling me and waking me up every morning. Knowing that my father is not around I had a hard time adjusting in those

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