Movie: “28 days” 1. Presenting addiction: In 28 days the main character “Gwen” is an alcoholic who ends up getting arrested at her sisters wedding for driving drunk and crashing into a house. 2. Observed underlying issues: An observed underlying issue is the relationship with her boyfriend “Jasper”. Jasper is also addicted to alcohol and prescription pills.
It described in great detail all the long nights of drug use and partying. I felt like I had been up all night with Kristina. The ending was not at all predictable. When Kristina returns to her mom's house to get clean from the drugs and to have the baby you believe that she will succeed. After she talks to her mother about not being able to provide for the baby and how difficult it was to love him, she decides to give the baby to her mother to adopt and raise.
Genetics can sometimes run in families is one cause to the start of mental illnesses. Infections, brain defects or injury, prenatal damage, substance abuse, and other factors are the other five factors to mental illnesses. Yates battled depression for years; the cause of her actions for drowning her children were caused by postpartum psychosis triggered by the improper use of her meds, not listening to what her doctor had to say after her treatment, and lack of knowing any coping techniques. Postpartum depression can take up to a year after the child’s birth before the mother would even notice any signs of depression. If left untreated it can have dire consequences.
Book report 4/19/12 AOE “The Black Box” written by Julie Schumacher is a story about one girls struggle through depression. This novel is different from other stories because it is told through the perspective of her sister, Elena. Elena tells the story of her sister Dora’s depression and how it not only affected Dora’s life but the whole family’s life as well. This story takes place in Elena’s home where Dora one day announced that she wishes she was dead and overdosed on pills. Their overprotective mother immediately put Dora in the psych ward at Lorning Hospital.
If drug court knew, she’d be out of the program. She says sometimes she does it because she sees Brenda cry and shake after going too long without a cold one. Sometimes, she admits, the beer makes her mom a little easier to handle. But not today. By 7 p.m., Brenda’s eyes are red from the drinking, and dark and dead from stress.
When Montag gets to his house he discovers that his wife named Mildred took the whole bottle of sleeping pills and calls 911. Mildred wakes up denying everything she’s accused of. Over a period of time, Clarisse and Montag consistently meet after Montag gets off work. She talks to him about her interests and how they make her seem strange to others and the world around her. Clarisse grows on Montag and he enjoys seeing her, but once he gets used to seeing her, she is nowhere to be seen.
In hope that this once beautiful young lady can have an impact on their lives before it’s too late. Terrie was definitely persuasive in this ad without having to say stop smoking. I don’t feel there is a need for a logical reason why to stop smoking it’s just basic knowledge that it is not healthy just from the things you see around you each day. This ad over all appealed mainly to all of our emotions in some way rather you are a smoker or non-smoker. These are not actors; they are real people telling their real stories.
It is caused by the sudden fall in hormone levels (particularly of estrogen and progesterone) that occurs after a baby is born (WEBMED). The syndrome can lead a mother to experience postpartum depression, and most extreme postpartum psychosis. Women who experience postpartum blues may never experience the associated depression or psychosis. Postpartum blues can occur to certain women that have had depression before. Postpartum blue symptoms include feeling of isolated and inadequate and concerns for the responsibility that they are going to have.
In the book Crank by Ellen Hopkins the main character Kristina goes through the struggle of addiction with drugs, she goes all the way down to rock bottom in life, although she went through hell she ended up with a happy ending. The theme of this story is never to give into peer pressure, addiction is so powerful, you have to fight it everyday. Before Kristina starts her journey with the “monster” she visits her dad after years of her parents being divorced; The reason her parents were divorced was because of his drug use. But when she visits her dad she falls into depression and starts to fall with the wrong crowd and meets the “monster” aka meth. While she is in New Mexico she was introduced to partying and adam, the one she fell in
His first victim was Ivy Rose (Doreen) Oswald. She was a switchboard operator and she decided to accompany Paul during one of his massive drinking sessions. She agreed to go back to a hotel with him. The next morning, her body was found completely naked and dead. She had a blood alcohol level of .51 which is extremely abnormal considering the blood alcohol level needed to have alcohol poisoning and be passed out is .4.