Benefits Of Growing Up Jasmine

She had a very rough childhood, growing up with an alcoholic mother, and her father was not in the picture. Sophia wanted to be a school teacher when she was younger, but she got involved with the wrong crowd. The crowd she started hanging out with got her involved with drugs and alcohol and she started to make the wrong decisions, which at first she did not think anything of these bad decisions she was making, but later these decisions would affect her future. Sophia dropped out of high school and never fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a school teacher. I will always remember the piece of advice that Sophia gave me, “never let the people you hang around manipulate and change you dreams, because they are not going to matter in the future.” Sophia ended up following her mother’s footsteps in becoming an alcoholic. She was working at a Taco Bell fast food restaurant, which was giving her money to feed her alcoholism and give her rent money for roof over her head. Her alcoholism took over her life. She began spending her rent money on more alcohol, so she eventually got evicted. Sophia has been bouncing back and forth between shelters since she was in her mid-twenties. When she was telling me her story, she did not blame anybody but herself for her eviction and for her being

I believe that people can change a lot over time. This is coming from a person that has lost friends because of the way I was acting. Change can happen whether someone will believe it or not. People in my family do not like change, they think that if you have done something wrong you're permanently a bad person and you will never do the right thing again. My mom always told me to watch out for the kids that do drugs, drink and party all the time because those are the kids that will never grow up and never change their way of life. I didn't listen to her because I knew these kids had a chance at changing, they just liked to have fun. She thought it was a bad thing, but it was just some teenagers having a good time.

In my experience, I used cocaine at very early age; this is why I chose this topic. Once I started using, I couldn’t stop and I tried different ways like hanging out with different people, going to different places, doing different things, and even rehab after rehab since the age of 14 did not stop my wanting to use every day. I robbed my parents of money and sleep. I took from them until they had nothing to give. I was dishonest to everyone around me including myself. I was selfish and self-centered to the extreme. I felt like the world owed me something and that the world revolved around me. My family and friends wanted nothing to do with me. They disowned me, took my daughter from me, and put me out on the street. It was at that point that I felt hopeless and depressed and was willing to do something different. I had no idea at the time that God was going to change my life dramatically.

She shares with the group a notable relapse warning sign of missing the friends that she used to drink with and speaks of those days with a certain fondness. Although she had many good times with these friends, she realizes that none of them were there for her for through her times of adversity. Explicitly, there was one true friend she had that was supportive, didn’t have the bad habits that her other friends had, and enjoyed the same activities, but tragically her friend passed away before she became consciously aware of the distinct value of her friendship with this woman. She has since disassociated herself from those who do not have her best intentions in mind, now chooses to spend her time with her mom, sister, niece, and great-niece. Prior to participating in the program at the YMCA, Cindy lacked confidence, another relapse warning sign, and is amazed at her own strength and resilience when she is motivated. Also, client expressed having difficult work days as another relapse warning sign, and plans to find healthy ways to relax at home to deal with the frustration she experiences at her

Hearing what drugs or abuse of drugs did to her definitely makes me not want to do them. I will stay out of drugs and other harmful things that can hurt me and my body. I’m saying no to drugs now and no to drugs

So throughout this problem my short term goals was to find out is my friend an alcoholic and what’s the cause of the problem. My long term goals was to solve my friend drinking problem. By setting these goals I knew how I was going to address this situation. I knew I couldn’t come on strong because it would probably turn my friend away. Then I really to show my friend I care and my not there to judge him or she. Lastly I gave my friend tips to get help and to take drinking slowly because you’re not just going to quit in one

Recently an old friend of mine reconnected with me and caused some personal conflict between us, and some within myself too. It seems she had a falling out with her daughter and looked to me for not only support but to take a side in the argument as well. While never asking directly I could tell from the conversation that she wanted me to side with her. The problem comes from that she is placing the blame for a lot of her life's misfortunes on her daughter. This includes her current medical condition and relationships with her sons. I know about her history of substance abuse and assumed, and led to believe, she received treatment years ago.

The first step in her treatment is to get her to process the migration change and the loss of her friend. I would do this is by doing intense case management doing home and school visits to check in with Kay. The next step would be getting her to disclose if she is doing drugs, and if she is which is likely I would place her in a residential treatment center. If the family resist I would explain to her the benefits of she being placed in a residential versus out patient, and the best part is that none their family members would know, they can tell them she is going to boarding school.

While she was in one of the hardest initial stages of recovery I visited her for a weekend to offer her support. Her bedroom was covered entirely with images of thin girls, probably also dealing with anorexia. I confronted her, and asked her why she had them plastered along the walls. I originally didn’t put any deep thought into where she got them, I was desensitized to it because I too looked for pictures of girls to inspire myself. I was more focused on convincing her to remove them from her

On the contrary psychological science views why adolescents partake in drug use much differently. The article “Adolescents’ and Their Friends’ Health- Risk Behavior: Factors That Alter or Add to Peer Influence”, authors state that “adolescents’ substance use, violence, and suicidal behavior were related to their friends’ substance use, deviance, and suicidal behaviors” (Prinstein, 287). The picture that I chose to best represent this is a girl with a friends behind her, and a thought bubble of her thinking that her friends believe doing drugs is okay and cool. I also thought it was as important to clearly show to adults or society that an adolescents’ friends have a huge impact on whether or not the individual uses substances, thus why I picked

I told her that she should stay away from her friends who are using marijuana and not think about using marijuana at any cost, but she was so close to her best friends that she also started to smoke marijuana. She told me that she had researched a lot about marijuana online and smoking little bit marijuana would not hurt her. I tried to convince her a lot, but it was too late because started to like marijuana. First, she was smoking little marijuana bit, but then she started to smoke marijuana a lot. Soon, she started to hang out with people who knew how to get marijuana illegally. She was becoming addicted to marijuana day by day and wasting her money to buy marijuana which could be used for something else. Before she started to use marijuana, She was getting As in all her classes, but she soon started to get Cs and Ds in all her classes because she was busying smoking marijuana that she did not care about she destroying her future. She was becoming paranoid and started to behave weird due to side effects of marijuana.

“Haylee you will be the only person at prom not drinking haha!” “Don’t ask Haylee to come with us tonight because we are going to be drinking.” “You don’t understand.” They were right, I don’t understand. The same people making fun of me for not drinking were the same friends I had in elementary school that vowed to “say no to drugs.” These are the same friends I had in junior high that I would stay up with all night promising each other we would never try alcohol. I never believed that I would be the only one of my childhood friends that would not experiment with drugs and alcohol. Somewhere along the way, this same group of friends and I took different paths. No longer do we agree that drugs and alcohol are off limits. I have found myself defending all the reasons why we promised to stay away from illegal substances.

I knew this girl since her first year in high school. She was a hyper, talkative girl. She had so much energy that she would talk to everyone, challenge everyone, and even coaches to a one-on-one game. I admired her drive to go after what she wanted. Though, during her parents’ custody battle, she became gloomy and despondent. She use to ask me help her with math homework or double check her essay. When I would try to help her further, she would only want to do enough to just get a passing grade. Her attitude had completely changed and it was worrying to our entire team. We just concluded that it was just because of what was going on at home that changed her attitude so drastically. However, a year later after her mother regained custody, she was not the same positive energized freshman I once knew. On my very last day of high school, she came up to me and thanked me for everything that I helped her with. This moment truly touched

My friend has been getting really into drugs lately and I am very worried about her and feel as if we are drifting apart and aren’t as close as we used to be.

PO had a strong participation in the group activities, and stated that she disengaged herself from friends that are still using alcohol and/or drugs. PO expressed “honesty, respect, supportive, and stay sober” as some of the important values in developing new friendships. PO is continually making progress in treatment, and appears to be in the action stage of change.