Sandra Bullock stars in the movie 28 Days as Gwyn Cummings, a New York columnist, who has a drug and alcohol problem. Things are out of control for Gwyn when she ruins her sister’s wedding. Instead of spending time in jail, Gwyn is sentenced to 28 days at a rehab center. Once Gwyn reaches the rehab center, she makes it clear that she has no intent of being sober. She neglects the rules, is disrespectful to everyone, and obtains narcotics from her boyfriend whenever he visits. She even tries to score some drugs from Cornell who she realizes later that he is her head counselor. Soon, the reality of Gwyn’s situation begins to dawn on her. She goes through physical extractions and she begins to see how her current behavior was triggered by her …show more content…
childhood. Gwyn turns over a new leaf after this and despite the help by Cornell and the other patients; she soon realizes that if she is going to make a change in her life, it’s going to have to begin with herself. I talked with a friend of mine who works in the substance abuse treatment field and after I viewed the film to see how the treatment was portrayed I found that "28 Days" walks a line between Hollywood fiction and reality. I was surprised by the precision of the scenes rendering Gwyn’s time in the rehab center. The setting, groups, and the interface between the patients is dead-on precise. Patients in treatment programs are usually chain-smokers, never want to follow the procedures, dislike to be confronted on their problems, and will do anything to sneak away. It’s difficult to remove yourself from alcohol immediately or decide to quit ‘cold turkey’ as they will experience some physical withdrawal symptoms that can go from the mild to severe and sometimes even life-threatening. Usually the body craves for more alcohol as the physical symptoms of withdrawal begin to increase, taking another drink to help lessen the pain of nausea, headache, anxiety, rapid heartbeat, and increasing blood pressure. Gwyn was going through mild problems while in rehab such as symptoms like shaking, hand tremors, headaches, nausea, and night sweat. “I'm an alcoholic and I can never drink again.
Moderation just doesn't work. I can tell myself, "I'll only have 2 drinks" and next thing you know I've had 8 or 10 and I'm going home with some strange guy I just met. I'll wake up the next day and wonder why the hell I did that. Once I start I really can't stop. The obsession is that bad. I suppose it's a disease, if you want to call it that. It's definitely some sort of disorder. Many alcoholics have tried that, including myself, and its torture. Counting your drinks, panicking when you know you've reached the limit for the night, crying or getting violently angry that you need to stop and go home or try to go to sleep. It just doesn't work.” (Pico) Just as he said, it’s very difficult to drink moderately or be a responsible drinker without any consequences. It may work for some patients but it’s not an easy habit to break. Some of the things a person should do if they want help is to look closely at the patterns and triggers in their lives that led to overdrinking. Then they will need to put plans in place to avoid these causes or to learn how to deal with them and set limits on your drinking. It’s also recommended to take on a moderation plan abstain for a month. Finally, it helps to have support from your family members and friends or even support groups. Becoming alcohol dependent, is very difficult to stop drinking without assistance and
support. The movie, "28 Days" isn’t perfect however, it does give viewers a fairly accurate view of what it’s like when someone enters substance abuse treatment. The film does ultimately enter a fantasy world, but it offers some nice performances.
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Sandra Bullock starred as Gwen Cummings, a woman who is always the life of the party. Gwen had an addiction to alcohol. Life began to be different when she was wasted at her sister wedding, fell onto the cake, stole the limo and ran it off the road into a house. Gwen got a DUI, and sentenced to 28 days in rehab. It took a week or so of getting used to rehab and working past withdrawal urges but Gwen learned to find happiness in other ways.
Understanding how far your psyche is able to be pushed is useful for everyday life, and for the long run. Dostoevsky properly displayed how Raskolnikov was shaped by his mental and outward conflicts, ultimately showing how important this character was in the book. Even though he’s the main character, if Dostoevsky failed to highlight how Raskolnikov’s sanity was getting away from him, it would be hard for the reader to understand his actions. In the end, knowing that Raskolnikov was mentally incapable when he committed the crime of murder and went on to hide the fact he was guilty, it foreshadowed that in the end of the book he would give himself up one way or another. Mental capacity and its limits can be seen as an important aspect of a person’s personality, as displayed in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment with Raskolnikov, who was unaware of the limits of his psyche which resulted in him loosing his sanity.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, alcoholism is defined as "the compulsive consumption of and psychophysiological dependence on alcoholic beverages." It is a problem that can tear apart marriages and families, cause someone to lose his job, and many more negative results. In order to recover from this dependency a person must lose his desire for and dependence upon alcohol, continue to remain sober, and resolve all conflicts caused by the alcohol abuse. There are several alternatives an alcoholic has to rehabilitate himself. The best solution is a combination of individual therapy and a support group like Alcoholics Anonymous.
First, an alcoholic can decide to stop drinking at any time. Firstly, cutting back is and option. According Shari Roan a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, top addiction experts believe that drinkers can limit the amount they drink
The Notebook Thought to be one of most memorable and trademark romantic movies of all time The Notebook is far from your average love story. The movie is average in the fact Allie daughter of a very rich and proper mother and father falls hopelessly in love with Noah, just a poor mill worker and of course her parents don’t approve. When Noah leaves for war Allie falls in love with another man. As expected Noah comes back from war right when Allie is about to get married but it is obvious she is still in love with Noah.
Alcohol Abuse is part of disorder that affects many people throughout the world. Many are aware of the issues the disorder can bring not just on the victim, but also to the people that surround the person with the psychological problem. There are different areas that can be discussed in regards to alcoholism. According to Coon & Mitterer (2013), a substance abuse disorder is when there is an abuse or dependence on a psychoactive drug. Alcohol is a substance that can become abusive and bring negative effects on a person’s body. Alcohol is a substance that can bring behavioral effects such as behavioral effects, physical changes, and social changes. A good solution to Alcohol abuse can be Alcohol anonymous, an organization that helps individuals with alcohol addiction.
-Training: understanding the job well enough to know who to hire and how well they are doing.
My paper is based on an article from the text’s web site (chapter 9) entitled “Lack of sleep ages body’s systems.” The basic claim of the article is that sleep deprivation has various harmful effects on the body. The reported effects include decreased ability to metabolize glucose (similar to what occurs in diabetes) and increased levels of cortisol (a stress hormone involved in memory and regulation of blood sugar levels). The article also briefly alludes (in the quote at the bottom of page 1) to unspecified changes in brain and immune functioning with sleep deprivation.
First and foremost, alcoholism is hard to break due to the brain craving created by a drinking habit. According to Charles Duhigg in The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, habit is created when there are a cue, a routine, and a reward that develop a craving that make people repeat the loop(49). The craving for drinking is generally cultivated by the short-term reward resulted from drinking. Most alcoholics believe that drinking can help them to escape from their hard times and forget their problems. Elizabeth
In the movie, Gwen uses alcohol to cope for every situation. Gwen starts the show
Psychology is the investigation of the mind and how it processes and directs our thoughts, actions and conceptions. However, in 1879 Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany. Nevertheless, the origins of psychology go all the way back thousands of years starting with the early Greeks. This foundation is closely connected to biology and philosophy; and especially the subfields of physiology which is the study of the roles of living things and epistemology, which is the study of comprehension and how we understand what we have learned. The connection to physiology and epistemology is often viewed as psychology, which is the hybrid offspring of those two fields of investigation.
(Chad Michael Murray). She makes a mad dash back to reality, leaving him clueless as to who she really is. While trying to cope with all the hardships going on in her life, she is forced to find the courage to be herself and claim the life that she has always wanted.
I never noticed how much psychology could be incorporated into everyday life. But really, any decision or action you take is related to it. I have personally been extremely interested in social psychology: why people do things because of social norms, what people do in order to look socially acceptable, etc. Others topics I also find interesting are sensation and perception; how past experiences can influence how you perceive the things around you, states of consciousness; how things that have happened in your day can be transferred into a mash of events in your dreams, motivation and emotion; what makes a person do something or what makes a person start or stop procrastination, and lastly: personality; what characteristics and traits stand out the most in a person, what makes a person who they are.
The best way to avoid alcohol abuse, dependence, and addiction is to drink only moderate amounts, or not drink at all. Moderate drinking is no more than one drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men. To avoid alcohol dependence: