Addicts are also considered as agents who promote addictive behaviors. On the other hand, this article also presents criticism against the disease model in its explanation of addiction. By absolving addicts from there responsibility it lays foundation for the propagation of addiction and the underestimation of the related problems. This model was developed in the 1800s in Victorian England. It posits that those addicted to alcohol or other drugs are weak-minded, are morally deficient, or wanting in character.
This alters a person’s perceptions, emotions, movement, vision and hearing. In very small amounts, alcohol can help a person feel relaxed or less anxious. Commonly seen after traumatic events such as death and divorce people drink to calm themselves down or to relieve stress. Expert’s theorized alcohol is addictive because of three main reasons the first is that alcohol is very addictive, the more the body gets the more it wants. A family history of addiction provides a great risk of being an alcoholic.
Very similar to substance addictions, non-substance addictions show all of the components of traditional chemical or drug addiction. This includes a huge preoccupation with the behavior, a chemical high, which involves an increase of neurotransmitters in the body (brain chemicals), and actual withdrawal symptoms, which is when the neurotransmitters decrease dramatically. This decrease of neurotransmitters causes craving for the activity or drug. Even though it is not due to an external chemical dependence, non-substance addiction can be extremely dangerous. Non-substance addicts face the same pitfalls as substance addicts; financial loss, loss of family, criminal procedures due to actions brought on by the activity, and quite possibly death
Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.” (Poe, 40)The end of the first paragraph really shows. Logically speaking a mad man would not be able recount murder. One critic refers the narrator as being “an egocentric who derives pleasure from cruelty.” (Pritchard, 144) This idea of the narrator being egocentric (or self-centered) is supported by another critic who says he show the stages of “Ego-Evil.” (Ki, 25) The narrator shows his selfcenteredness when he says, “I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!
Having alcohol in our social situations can be dangerous. People begin to drink and drink, especially if they are really nervous, and soon become drunk, when they can be coaxed into doing anything. This can lead to much worse activities than just drinking. Alcohol effects people’s driving, decision making, perspective, mental abilities and their health as well. If someone drinks too much they can get ill, and even die.
Most importantly the effects on the liver is most impactful. If more alcohol is consumed that what the liver can break down it will damage your liver. Externally it will lead to actions that will most likely always be regretted. Being drunk can lead to unwanted fights, drunk driving which can fatal accidents, and saying things that would otherwise not be said in order to not hurt feelings or relationships. While you are drunk, you have almost no chance of winning a fight since alcohol messes with coordination, which basically leaves you defenseless.
This is apparently a problem to them, for the boy had no desires, given his incurable mental illness, “Mad-made objects…could be found in his abstract world.” The couple finally picked a basket with jellies for their son. This makes the reader deeply sympathise the boy’s plight, for a “young man” like him would usually have no interests in jellies which are a suitable present for children. It reflects what his sickness has reduced him to – a teen with intelligence of a child. The boy repeatedly contemplates suicide, and has had yet another failed attempt to do so, and the couple is unable to see him, for fear that “a visit might disturb him”. The couple is revealed to be at a rather old age, “At the time of his birth…now they were quite old.” Their son’s illness has put a huge financial burden on the little family – the father used to be a successful businessman, but is now “wholly dependent on his brother Isaac”.
Some just want to escape and drink their pain away. They tend to drink large amounts of alcohol in one sitting which is called binge drinking. That can be very bad considering alcohol is a depressant and you can become dependent on it. Drinking alcohol underaged can affect the still-growing brain leading to a learning deficiency and mental disorders. Alcohol tends to make you lazy and makes you show a loss of interest in your school work and extra curricular activities.
In order to cure her "temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency" (Gilman 833) she is advised to do no work and to never to even think of her condition. This is the advice of her husband John who also fills the role as her physician. This response to mental instability is important to Gilman's own agenda. In being under the care of her own husband the narrator takes on the role of his inferior. She is even deemed with child-like affections such as "little girl" (Gilman 838) and her very place of confinement is a nursery.
However the wife leaves, confining the husband to his home alone. In this poem the husband takes on a stereotypical role in the marriage by being the stronger person of the relationship. He strives for control of the situation and pretends to not care much that he just buried his son. He hides his emotions and changes the subject to the rot he found on the fence. At first he wonders why his wife is crying and becomes angry with him, but once she explodes at him, confessing all her feelings, and threatens to leave him, he states that, “There, you have said it all and you feel better.