msi, the main problem we are facing here is that you are making your mother the focal point of your essay. You are totally missing the most important requirement of the prompt which is ;
tell us how your world shaped your dreams and aspirations
You spoke of the world that your mother lived in. Not the world you lived in. If it is the darkness of your mother's anxiety attack that you want to concentrate on as the theme of this essay then you must relate that directly to your development as a person. Here are some guide questions that could help you develop the proper content for this paper, concentrating on you and your development as a person.
1. When you mother used to have attacks a child, what did you think was happening to her? Remember, you did not know she was having an anxiety attack yet.
2. What was your relationship with your mother like because of these attacks? Did you fear her? Love her? Pity her?
3. What could you do as a child to help your mother?
4. When he illness finally got a name, anxiety attacks, how did you feel?
5. How did you react to the diagnosis?
6. What adjustments did you have to make in your life so you could assist your mother?
7. If this event in your life is related to your choice of majors, you should relate this experience with the choice you made at this point.
8. What did you learn about yourself throughout this whole ordeal?
9. Looking back on everything that happened, how do you think those experiences helped to shape the person you have become?
I am trying to help you make this essay all about you while using your mother as an integral part of your development. Let's see if answering these questions in essay form will help you get closer to the prompt requirement :-)