A Million Little Pieces Theme Essay

This experience has changed the way I see those who haven’t had enough and those who haven’t found away out of the addicted world. I’ve learned there is more to a person than their appearance and in these cases there is a lot of hurt and anger in their souls. Even after recovery some people still carry around guilt and anger. Some are ashamed because they let something affect them in a way in which they lost control. Others are angry at

At the beginning of my training, I was hesitant to work with people struggling with addiction. However, at this point, I am excited to begin working with this population. The raw honesty presented in the group setting along with the anger at the possibility of losing a safe place created a dynamic I wanted to further explore. Research supports that individuals attending group therapy in a 12 step program format succeed if they have the proper support and motivation (Cite). The group dynamic demonstrated that recovery takes time and self-discovery, similar to other situations dealt with in therapy. Subsequently, by using my sense of self and humor with clients struggling with addiction, I can help them in their journey. Furthermore, the client needs to identify accountability at their own pace in the process and not when others dictate. This knowledge and the personalization of addiction will aid me in the future support of my

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     John Hughes’ 1985 film, The Breakfast Club, gives countless examples of the principles of interpersonal communication. Five high school students: Allison, a weirdo, Brian, a nerd, John, a criminal, Claire, a prom queen, and Andrew, a jock, are forced to spend the day in Saturday detention. By the end of the day, they find that they have more in common than they ever realized.

Although Of Mice and Men definitely teaches young students about how the setting was set up back then, the themes of abuse and death included could be found highly inappropriate or offensive to young students today. These themes arise from the multiple abusive and gory deaths of characters throughout the novel. For example, the novel included a reoccurring scene of murder of innocent animals by Lennie including mice and puppies. Some readers are not able to handle such grimness, therefore finding it repugnant or simply unacceptable. Readers with their own pets may also feel a terrible sense of guilt and repulsiveness by simply reading the novel. Another example is portrayed when Lennie violently kills Curley’s wife by shaking her to death.

In the book, Addiction & Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions, May explores how addiction develops and can be treated from a psychological, physiological, and spiritual standpoint. This theme is clearly shown through out the text as it shows addiction from a whole person view. The book covers the development of addiction from desire through the experience of addiction. The key focus on looking at the matter of addiction from multiple stand points in then broken down by explaining how addiction is an issue psychologically, physiologically, and spiritually. By focusing on these three areas the author is able to present the reader with a clear understanding of addiction from all sides of the problem. This is then

Drug addictions are known to have strong psychological holds on people’s brains to the point where they are unable to stop and only rely on these substances to keep them functioning. Jesse has become so dependent on drugs that in order for him to stay ‘regular’ he needs to consume weed and hash, or else he risks the difficult symptoms of withdrawal that only further fuels his

Alcoholics Anonymous can help individuals struggling with substance abuse. Low self-esteem in a person has been implicated in the development of alcohol use disorder, and relapse (Donovan, Ingalsbe, Benbow, & Daley, 2013). In this report, I will discuss her experience of visiting an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting at Buckeye Easy Does It (BEDI). I will also present the topic of the meeting, her reaction to the topic, how 12-step can help. The barriers one might experience at the meeting, psychological and emotional impact, and how low self-esteem can affect an individual attending their first AA meeting.

From beginning to end, Benoit Denizet-Lewis makes this apparent in his tales about the eight addicts, and even in his own experiences with addiction. The book has the potential to change the way the public thinks about the issue of addiction in America. At the end of the book, I learned about who had succeeded or relapsed. In a statement I wholeheartedly agree with, "Where are the millions of addicts in this country who are sober and have turned around their lives? They need to be on the front lines of this war," Denizet-Lewis mentions, encouraging other recovering addicts to join and make both a political and public stand on the awareness of

When Augusten was checked into his rehab center, he had relatively few symptoms of clinical withdrawal. The only major one pointed out was a high blood pressure, which could have easily been due to the journey in which he knew he was about to embark on. But, it is a different story altogether when he is in the midst of a relapse. After a sleepless, sick feeling night, Augusten falls into withdrawal. It starts with hallucinations of spiders (criterion B.5 for the DSM diagnosis of withdrawal). After 24 hours of no alcohol he feels as if he is dying. His body is shaking and his hands have such bad tremors “they vibrate” (criterion B.2). His heart rate has increased dramatically (Criterion B.1) to the point that it “woke me up…beating so wildly in my chest…like someone pounding on the front door”. The

The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes, is a movie that has become a classic for many generations. It is about five high school students, all from different cliques, that come together during detention and discover that they all share common problems they would have never imagined. Each student did something completely different yet they all broke the rules and ended up meeting. Those few hours in that room opened not only their eyes, but also the viewers’ eyes on how wrong we can be during those years of our lives. This movie has impacted so many generations because it is true to what the high school experience really is and how judgmental teens can be without really knowing each other.

The alarm clock went off. It was Monday, fight day, or for Mindy about every other day. Mindy was battling a stupid music-lover named Gazpacho. She honestly did not know why this dude thought he could actually get a scratch on her. She could flick him in the face just once and that would be all it took to put him in a coma for at least a week. If it wasn’t for her refusal to become a murderer, this guy would be dead within five minutes.

Waking up from the Matrix, for example, is agonizing in a similar way to recovering from an addiction. When Neo wakes up, he struggles to breathe as he pulls himself out of a thick pool of gelatin. With cords attached to all parts of his body, he is choked by a machine as it unscrews a plug once secured in his skull. In a less gruesome but still painful way, drug rehabilitation involves an excruciating physical withdrawal process. The choice to withdraw, similar to leaving the Matrix, is essentially up to the individual.

Book Theme: In the arduous journey from childhood to adulthood, a young woman is faced with two things that need great attention and balance - the progress of her individual social standing, and the welfare of her immediate family.

The truth is constantly avoided, as said by the author of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, “The truth is like poetry and most people fucking hate poetry”- Michael Lewis. The Big Short connects to the tragedy, “All My Sons”, written by Arthur Miller in 1947 and the Volkswagen emissions scandal by valuing money over everything. The quote also connects to both the play and the scandal by running around the truth at all costs. The play, “All My Sons”, is a tragic play in which the father, Joe Keller, lies about his part in the transaction of faulty plane parts. Avoiding public shame and jail time, he throws his partner, Steve Deever, under the bus for the crimes before Steve’s son George ultimately identifies Joe as the true culprit. Minutes after