After I became more comfortable and started expressing who I am, when I was sober, than I felt like I might not need to use to function as a human being. I think it is definitely part of the coming out process for a lot of people, which is unfortunate.
Interviewer: The drugs and alcohol is part of the coming out process.
Female Speaker: Yeah, because they need to feel like they have some sort of dependent thing to kind of help them feel more comfortable and less anxious. I know I definitely turned to drugs for that.
Female Speaker 2: I feel like there is also this huge gap that you get in the queer community and so many people use drugs and the actually support when you are trying to get off of them. For one, a lot of 12 step programs,
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Why do think that people your age drink past the legal limit.
Female Speaker: Just my age and not the LGBTQ community, you don’t know your limit. You are still young and you see everyone else doing shot after shot and you think you can do that. Eventually you kind of grow aware I guess.
Female Speaker 2: There are people over the legal limit, because maybe the legal limit doesn’t make them feel numb and that is what they want to feel. So, they just go until they feel numb and that makes your addiction and leads to over use.
Female Speaker 3: It is kind of like a rite of passage and something that adults do and it's very fetishized in America and that is our thing. It is really something specific about us in a way that it really isn't in a lot of other places. I think there is also a large aspect of competition, especially with lesbians and everyone it trying to out mask each other. It's like, you can't hold your liquor like us and oh, you want to bet. That factors in a lot.
Female Speaker 4: It's just the whole thing of fitting in. If everyone else can drink this much, I should be able to drink that much and find out that you can't and you just screw yourself
Of course, feeling these emotions are all a standard part of life. Finding ways to address these feelings without doing drugs is a key to recover from addictions Being stressed out is the most important key for someone to have a drug addiction, and people find it very difficult to relieve stress without doing drugs, or even alcohol. Drug abuse often blocks from misplaced efforts to cope with stress. In the novel The Los Angeles Diaries by James Brown, the main character is explaining how he tried to relieve stress drinking. “I don’t know, but when I drink I often lose complete sense of time..” (11) Growing up, people usually would turn to alcohol or drugs to relax after a stressful event, or to hide painful memories or emotions. There are much more healthier, and safer ways people can keep stress levels in check, without looking back on your addiction. Different strategies to help stress may work, or not work out better for some people than another. The key for someone is to find which way of relieving stress works out the best for them. When someone finds themselves confident ability to de-stress without the use of drugs will not be as intimidating or
Addiction in itself is very complex, there are many components to comprehending how addiction can affect a person’s well-being and livelihood. There are times when a person is undoubtedly dependent, for example on food and water for survival. There are additional fundamentals in a person’s life they may feel are vital to their survival. Low on the scale of impairment is exercising, a person can become addicted to exercising, but there will not be extremely harmful consequences, unless taken way too far, unlike if the person were to become addicted to a harmful drug such as methamphetamine, that would negatively affect their life in an extreme way. Eventually, the substance becomes the most important object in the person’s life, and it is their
Gender roles are not the product of innate biology; They are formed based on the cultural and societal beliefs that surround an individual during their development. These factors play a very important role in gender identity, and often lead individuals to believe in stereotypical representations of gender identity such as gender roles. The way in which these cultures interpret the expression of gender identity heavily impacts the way an individual chooses to express themselves.
throughout in all the substances that could happen. It might addiction, overused, abusing the use,
Substance abusers seek this impairment for a variety of reasons such as to get away from reality or to escape their problems. In the process of getting this “high” their brain chemistry changes and they become addicted. “Addiction is the repeated compulsive use of a substance even after the person suffers from the physical, mental, and legal consequences” (Williams, 2011). Substance abuse causes many negative effects to the person who is addicted as well as their loved ones. Even though these effects are devastating, the person continues to use because their brain and body are reprogrammed to need the substance. When the person isn 't using the substance they begin to suffer from withdrawal symptoms. “Withdrawal is a physical response to the sudden cessation of a substance that has been used over a period of time; these symptoms are specific to the substance” (Williams, 2011). When a person is suffering from withdrawal symptoms they have mental and physical effects. These effects can range from sweating to seizures. Physical symptoms are usually the first step followed by mental symptoms, these two steps together can last up to a few weeks. (Melemis, 2016). I was recently able to observe at a substance abuse rehabilitation facility where I witnessed a client withdrawing. This client seemed to be agitated and anxious. Also he was very red in
The first thing that made me think about getting sober was that I lost my self-esteem. I always used to cut myself down in front of people and never knew how to accept compliments- sure signs of low self-esteem. The biggest symptom I had of low self-esteem was that I wasn't comfortable in my own skin or around people unless I was drunk because the only way I could stand myself was when I drank. I also never cared about my appearance, so I wouldn't wear make-up, fix my hair, or bathe regularly. Still, low self-esteem was something I would never have guessed I had-that is, until I thought about killing myself. Then I knew something might be wrong.
Was this what growing up meant? Being able to drink and do exactly what my parents and teachers had been telling me not to do for as long as I could remember? I looked around the room, and saw other people drinking the same stuff, then I saw them stumbling around, and some were in the corner puking. This never happens to the people on the beer commercials on TV, why should it happen to these kids?
Alcohol in moderation could be beneficial to some, but unfortunately can and is lethal to others. Drinking in moderation is considered no more than 4 drinks on a single day and no more than 14 drinks a week, for men. For women, moderation is even less, at 3 drinks a day and no more than 7 drinks a week. This is primarily due to women having smaller build and weighing less than men. To consider this moderate, both daily and weekly limitations must be met. (NIAAA).
...n individual’s life. Addiction is the same whether the drug is alcohol, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, or nicotine. All substances allow the individual to feel the high of feeling good, away from all the issues going on in their life. Though each individual has different reasoning’s behind doing the substance, continuing to constantly use the substance or substances makes the body dependent. Becoming dependent will make you experience uncontrollable cravings and relapse. Your body is at a point that stopping would be very difficult, causing severe physical and mental damage from withdrawal. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change,” the first step in any process an addict faces is accepting that they are exactly that, an addict. Once that is accepted they are allowing themselves to be open to getting help (Carl Rogers).
Walking down the busy streets of Tempe, I found myself at the local CVS located on University and Mills Ave. As soon as I entered the store, I immediately began my search for the aisle that haunted my childhood set the social construction of gender within my pre-adolescent mind. It took me a while to locate the aisle, due to the simple fact that I am not fond of asking for assistance, for that is something men do not do. I could not help but notice the bright florescent light that guided my vision to a purple sign which encrypted “TOYS”. While looking at this adequately small assortment of toys, I unconsciously started to pace back and forth and eventually found myself sitting on the floor. I was stumped. I kept thinking, “What is this lady talking about? What gender binary? I am so confused!”. This particular assignment not only puzzled
Students like myself have problems interacting socially, and drinking alleviates this constant want to curl up into the fetal position whenever they’re faced with speaking in public regardless of how many people are being spoken to. For some, it takes just a couple beers, and for others, it takes a six-pack and a couple shots of tequila to make them hate themselves enough to face another person socially and interact with them, being that they no longer have complete control of their actions at that point. This is usually what happens at frat parties and sororities, because being able to drink or smoke (depending where you live, smoking is not legal everywhere) around peers that do the same as you is a big deal; You feel like you fit in there because everyone around you is doing something in common with you, and that makes you feel like you fit
In our textbook, chapter twelve discusses sexual variants, abuse, and dysfunctions. To narrow down that broad range of abnormalities I want to focus on gender dysphoria. This is not to be confused with an earlier term: gender identity disorder. Where a person who was previously diagnosed with gender identity disorder experiences gender dysphoria, but might not always because of abnormal development of gender or identity. When a person is uncomfortable with their assigned gender or physical sex characteristics, gender dysphoria may be a possible explanation. There is also a level of distress that accompanies this feeling of incongruent gender. However, the distress can come from the inconsistency itself or when the resources such as hormones
A woman who has more than three drinks in one sitting or more than seven drinks a week is considered an alcoholic and should see their doctor for guidance. A man who has more than four drinks at one time or more than fourteen drinks a week is also considered an alcoholic and should seek the same advice on what to do to be helped. A drink is considered one bottle of beer (12 oz.), 1 glass of wine (red or other), 1 mixed drink, or 1 Shot.
Just like Alfred Kinsey said “The world is not divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.” The world is divided into people that want many different things in life, everyone has a different opinion and mind set on what they want. Some people have other beliefs and values than other people, so we cannot judge them for being themselves. I believe that sexuality is the way that you express yourself through sex, or sexual actions. There are many factors that go into sexuality. I mainly learned about how sex worked through my health and child development classes. There were other things that contributed to my knowledge on sex, those were media, talking with friends or people at school, and my family values. How I think about sex is greatly impacted by these factors, some factors impacted me more than others but all of them still have an impact on my beliefs today.
The treatment of the LGBT community in American Society is a social injustice. What most people think is that they just want to be able to marry one another and be happy but that’s not it. They want to be treated like humans and not some weird creatures that no one has ever seen before. They want to be accepted for who them are and not what people want them to be and they deserve the right to be who they are just the same as any other human being. After all the discrimination they have endured they should be allowed to be who they are and be accepted as equals just like people of different skin color did in the times of segregation. We have a long way to go as a country but being the greatest country in the world in the eyes of many great America will make big steps to make things fair.