Yates had mental instability during the time she killed her children, and after the birth of her fifth child is when she experienced postpartum depression. After she was in prison, professionals diagnosed her with insanity and postpartum depression. Genetics also played a part since there was a history of mental illness in her family. After the death of her father, she stopped doing everything she normally would do that would take care of her and her kids and Yates had become even more depressed. Yates had not realized how much mental illness there was in her
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.
The chapter, “Leaving Paradise” in Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch provides an insight into the negative aspects of belonging to a disaffected family and race through how it explores various social issues like alcoholism and domestic violence as well as other issues such as abandonment and discrimination. It demonstrates how these can influence the way in which people belong to a family as well as how the disadvantages faced due to cultural background can influence this. Alcoholism is introduced early into this chapter, when the author writes about Billy’s eighteenth birthday. The aunty that the protagonist May, and her brother live with has an alcohol and gambling addiction. She is described to be “either out or out of it”.
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.
Sonia suffers from chronic alcoholism. She has had serious relapses in the past but with support from her mother has managed to care for her children throughout. However, the health visitor is now expressing concerns as Sonia appears depressed and is drinking heavily again. The health visitor has particular concerns about Caitlin, whose weight gain has been erratic and follow up on other health checks has been inconsistent. There was a social worker involved until about six months ago when the case was closed partly due to pressures on the team and partly because the situation seemed stable at the time.
Neurochemical imbalances were to blame for his condition after years of studying this disorder and his living condition. Ed would see, hear and talk to his mother after her death. Ed Gein’s case of necrophilia and transvestism fetishism is one of the most infamous cases in America. Ed Gein’s mental state arose from the unhealthy emotional attachment he experienced with his mother and how she raised him. Ed Gein had a natural sexual attraction to the opposite sex but remembered how his mother discouraged all sexual desires.
I myself only realize it lately more and more with each time I go over our history together. I sometimes burst in this feeling of frustration because I can’t do anything about it. His mom was sniffing heroin when he and his twin brother were in her womb. That made them very vulnerable to becoming addicts themselves in their life. So they did, both of them, when they became adolescents.
Brief Substance Abuse Therapy The purpose of this paper is to design and expand our knowledge about family-based interventions in treatment through brief interventions for substance abuse problems within the world of alcoholism, drug abuse and the family. The story begins with a young mother of twins who have allowed excessive alcohol use to separate her family overtime. The young mother whose name is Maria is thirty-two years olds, lives with her verbally abusive husband and for now their twins daughters have been removed from the family home due to her alcohol use. (McCollum & Trepper, 2001). On any given day of the week Maria can be found watching television and drinking vodka until she passes out.
Medical At the age of 17 Fred had a motorbike accident which resulted in him going into an 8 day coma, this lead to him having outbursts of range. We feel this could be one of the reasons behind his aggressive nature. Feminist When Fred was 12 years old, he was sexually abused by his mother. As a result of this he believed that this was a “normal” thing to do, so therefore influenced Rosemary into following the same route. Also after Fred was charged for molesting a teenage girl when he was 19 he was disowned by his mother.
By having such harsh drug laws in place, rather than deterring drug use the government is actually deterring those from seeking help when they most need it. Take the case of Anna Wood for example; just a regular fifteen year old girl at a party with a group of friends that made the mistake of taking ecstasy. She began throwing up, convulsing and drifting in and out of consciousness. Her friends had two options, take her home with the hope she got better or take her to hospital so she could get the help she needed. Take a guess which one they chose, home of course.