Essay about Go Ask Alice By Anonymous

Lauren’s mother succumbed to the troubles of the world and was addicted to drugs while she was pregnant. Her mother’s addiction caused the severity of Lauren’s

For her, everyday acts seem much more enjoyable when on drugs. She goes out of their way to experience something new and exciting. She is a creative writer and uses drugs as a way to get back to her child-like imaginative state. Suddenly, with the drugs back in her life, she seems to have much more insight and a wilder imagination. "And the afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites"(93). She longs to feel this way all of the time, but she knows the consequences. She sees doing drugs like going to a carnival. It is an escape from the boring life she is leading now. Even though she has a daughter, she still feels like there is something she is missing out on. The idea of motherhood takes backseat to her lust for drugs.

As a high school graduate, she never thought that her addiction would have such an impact on her future and the family that she planned on having. This

A mentally ill teenage named Jessica Roger was born to Joan and Kevin Roger. As a young girl Roger’s mother was verbally abusive to her and her sister, she even went as far as trying to kill her husband. When little Roger was about eleven years old her mother left them with their alcoholic father. Roger ended up in prison for biting her sister and other acts because of her disorder, eventually she committed suicide while serving her time in a place where she just didn't belong. Although her mother showed remorse after her death and said, “she accepts blame, maybe too much, for what happened to her Jet”. On the other hand her father was unapologetic for his drinking “I still drink. It’s legal”. Roger sent her parents countless letter of how she was feeling but they didn’t do anything until after her death. Are you wonder how a mentally ill sixteen year old girl ends up on prison?

Alice has now passed through her by trail by fire, and she feels like an adult from the way others treat her as an individual. She declares “I am somebody: but her real maturation is not from how others respond to her, but from wise reflections on what it means to survivors the troubled times of adolescence.

While in foster care she adapts to new dysfunctional homes and with new rules. She had an unhealthy relationship with her first foster’s mom boyfriend and that foster mom shot her in the shoulder. She was starved in another foster home and began using

Samantha has been roaming the streets of New York for years now and has had some bad life experiences thrown at her and she has now become accustom to habitual heroin use to get her through her daily routine. With being a junkie, she steals to find her fix and occasionally resorts to prostitution to get some cash in her hand. Consequently she gets pregnant from the random John and does not believe in abortion, she thinks that this new baby will help her turn her life around. Three months down the road her demon has caught up with her and she has her kit in front of her with a syringe of the best heroin the streets have to offer. She injects and all her problems go away for the quick bliss of time. Time then strolls by day by day and she

For the most part, Elyn had a normal childhood with loving parents. However, as early as the age of 8 years old she began to experience some early symptoms such as intense compulsions, night terrors and even believing that houses were putting thoughts into her head. At twelve years old she stopped eating properly and lost a lot of weight. Even at a young age, Elyn believed that there was something terribly wrong with her and did her best to hide her condition from her family. As a teenager Elyn briefly experimented with drugs and was sent by her parents to an intense drug rehab after-school program which taught her that psychotropic drugs of any kind are bad and that any personal obstacle can be overcome with sheer force of will. In part due to this lesson that Elyn learned early on, she spent decades resisting medications outright or secretly reducing her dosages after agreeing to take medications. This reminded me of the importance of assessing the meaning behind taking medications with clients.

“Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a slowly progressive disease of the brain that is characterized by impairment of memory and eventually by disturbances in reasoning, planning, language, and perception.” (Howard Crystal) In Health 1000 we were asked to read the book Still Alice. I have never dealt with or have done any study on Alzheimer’s disease before reading this book. After finishing this book it has really opened my eyes to how bad of a disease and how it cripples the mind. I never imagined the effect of this disease on a patient and the patient family. This book is about a upper middle aged lady named Alice who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and how she and her family learn how to deal with disease. One of the things this book

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous is a novel, told via the diary of a teenage girl whose life spirals out of control once she moves to a new neighborhood and accidentally enters the world of drugs. The unnamed protagonist struggles not only with drugs but with typical teenage problems, such as worrying about appearance and relationships, searching for acceptance, and entering the real world after being sheltered from it for so many years. This story is a basic, coming-of-age story, where the protagonist can choose either to move forward with the knowledge gained or fail miserably, and, in this case, the latter is achieved. The narrator begins the novel by talking about Roger, a boy who rejects her after she buys the diary in which she writes for the

If only her boyfriend did break up with her, or if only she didn’t start hanging out with that group of kids she wouldn’t be that way. I knew deep down she didn’t like who she became and wanted to change. I knew she wished she never sarted hanging with them girls and doing drugs. On day she offered me drugs and I truned them down. That night I could stop thnking about what if I took her up on that offer and did the drugs with her, where would I be right now. Would my life be completely different would I even be in college wrighting this paper right now. I guess I will never know but im glad Myranda got her life together and relised that wasn’t the

A girl named Olive was always up to try new things. She liked the thrill of doing something new. One day she was at her cousins house and he had some weed in his room and asked if she would like to try it. She said yes because what was the harm? She thought she would try it and never do it again, but she tried it and liked the buzz she got. After that she smoked for about 2 years until she tried some more drugs. The drugs she took ranged from smoking weed to shooting heroin. She started dating a guy named Matthew and he did drugs also. They loved each other and got married. After a few years of marriage, Olive found out she was pregnant. While she was pregnant she continued to do drugs, even though she knew she should not. She could not stop

     Alice was a non-drug user and detested those who were into drugs. She was an

They say that the home forms the base of who a person is. A home is where one learns morals and ethics, however when ones home is broken a child becomes vulnerable to a loss of self identity. In the case of twelve year old Baby, her tragic life began in a broken household. She was the outcome of two teens who believe they were madly in love. Not long after Baby was born her mother passes away which forms the base in which Baby’s issues with self discovery begin. With her mothers death Baby was left alone with a teenage father who had no guidance on how to raise a child. In turn she uses heroin as an escape from reality. The loss of her mother and her fathers worsening heroin addiction creates a toxic life at home. One in which makes her the

For this quarter I read the book Go Ask Alice. This book was probably one of the most interesting books I have ever read. It was in diary perspective so you could read all of her thoughts and actions. One of the most interesting things about this book wasn’t even part of the book but as I was reading I over the time of the book you could see her writing deteriorate. The effects of drugs dropped her IQ by a lot. If you look at her first entry and her last she went from perfect grammar and to using words I didn’t even know to what looked like a third grader's work. This is just one thing this book shows and tells you about drugs.