According to Bill's wife, who accompanied him to the hospital, Bill had a 17-year history of drinking, but then became sober for ten years. He returned to drinking about a year ago when his youngest brother died in a car accident. Bill consumes about 7-10 bottles of beer each day. His wife believes his last drink was six hours earlier. Bill's family and co-workers are devastated about his relapse and the social and physical deterioration Bill's drinking is causing him.
Lately, he finds it difficult to fall asleep though. Tyler has been experiencing heartburn and acid reflux at night. His stomach makes some atrocious noises, and he's been feeling bloated. Tyler has tried getting up and taking antacids, but he still suffers indigestion. Recently, a friend, who has noticed Tyler's odd stomach noises and hiccupping through class, suggested Tyler do something about his diet.
Junior believes it has to do with depression, when he says, “I suppose he is depressed” and “I suppose the whole family is depressed” (40). He realizes that when he says, “we all look for ways to make the pain go away” (107). Some people that suffer from depression lock themselves in either the basement or “run away to get drunk” (150), like his sister and father. According to Junior everyone is depressed in the Rez, that is the reason why so many Indians become alcoholics, to flush away their pain. Junior's father “drinks his pain away” (107).
Drugs and alcohol become part of the addict’s daily life, exactly like food. I completely disagree with such an issue, where it has become a problem through different areas. I see this; reading the book where James has lost everything he ever owned. Family, friends and most importantly himself. He has developed all sort of addiction through his behavior.
Drinking moderately with friends, having dinner, he made sure however to never become the out of control alchie, as no one likes the annoying, obnoxious drunk. Over time he drank more and more by himself, becoming secluded and dependent. Withdrawing from his friends based on the realizations of his dependency, he became paranoid his neighbors would know the secret when they heard the clanking of the bottles in the trash bags as he carried them to the recycling bin. Alcohol seemed to mask, cover the feeling he had lingering inside, his unhappiness and uneasiness with himself, others and life in general. His life as he stated had just “stalled”, he was not married, did not have kids, had no legal issues and was
He never left Kansas City and during the play he had a child due in a few months. While working at a local barbeque restaurant, he also aided their father as he suffered from an illness called muscular sclerosis. The illness deteriorated his thought process and their father would have continuous events where he would envision their mother being with him but in reality she wasn’t and had passed away shortly after
While Alyson and Lynn stayed in 6A, Logan and Jason moved into the nearby Ronald McDonald House, a place to stay for families receiving treatment for serious illnesses. Two days before Christmas, Jason caught the Norwalk virus, throwing the whole process off-track as doctors kept him quarantined, waiting for him to recover. If Jason was no longer a suitable match—if his health wasn’t good enough or there was something wrong with his liver—the chances of finding another donor in time were extremely slim. He lay in bed, worrying every wasted day was putting his daughter one step closer to
This is known early in Counterparts as while Farrington is being scolded the first time by Mr. Alleyne he is thinking about drinking later on that night, “leaving after it a sharp sensation of thirst. The man recognized the sensation and felt that he must have a good night's drinking”. It is also clear he is an alcoholic when he pawns his pocket for drinking money. Personally, I can understand why Farrington would want to drink alcohol. He is having a rough day, and needs a way of escaping from the reality of his adversity.
In multiple scenes of the movie, James would hide his pain and distress by drinking alcohol. He then would get out of hand and verbally and most of all physically hurt the ones he loved most, especially his wife Sara (Williams). Along with the abusive behavior, James would often have nightmares, difficulty sleeping, angry outbursts, memory loss, and bouts of heavy drinking. Hyperarousal symptoms are usually constant, instead of being triggered by things that remind one of the traumatic event. They
His most memorable trip is going to the cabin on Russian River. Halloween and Christmas were special times for him and his brothers. His mother became depressed and started drinking. During her drinking episodes, she would take out her ill feelings on Dave. He would be ordered to stand in the corner of his mother's bedroom and he knew better than to move or ask to be released.