FA20Essay4Shivers by https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers Where Does Blame Belong: Person Or Disorder en-us 2021-05-18 00:29:27 UTC 2025-04-21 15:59:23 UTC hello@padlet.com Societal Positon kyrshiv https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1533578975
  • The article describes how irregularities in the brain are the factors that predispose someone to a drug addiction. The article talks about how researchers were trying to find specific imbalances, but believed that most were inherited. The article also talks about socioeconomic influences that play a role in both mental health and addiction, and how those factors are mostly looked over to spare costs and social stigmas. The article also cities multiple stories from addicts and explains how their addiction started, and what measures were taken to overcome it.
  • This article supports my essay because it once again describes the factors that lead to self-medication, but it also describes how much better drugs feel because of those factors. The appeal of drugs has been explained, but with the information that drugs feel better to those who are predisposed to addiction reinforces the idea of self-medication in a way, and also shows how people get trapped in the cycle this way.
  • ''For people who are biologically predisposed, the first drink or dose of the drug is immensely reinforcing, in a way others just don't experience it.”
  • ''Many recovering drug abusers tell me, 'The moment I took my first drug, I felt normal for the first time.' It stabilizes them physiologically, at least in the short term.''


    • ]]>     2021-05-18 00:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1533578975     Subject Expertise kyrshiv https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1533583065 David Eagleman breaks down how the brain works, and uses personal stories and professional studies to explain how outside influences can enhance or damage brain functions. Eagleman talks about the complexities of the brain, and how those complexities help us survive.]]> 2021-05-18 00:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1533583065 Societal Position kyrshiv https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1541628526
  • This article describes what suffering from depression feels like, and provides an overview of some symptoms. The article continues to list common causes and risk factors for this illness, the difference in this disorder for men and women, and when it’s time to talk to a doctor. 
  • This article supports my essay because in describing how depression feels, it’s understood how miserable and awful it feels to live with this disorder. Going through the symptoms allowed me to make connections to real life experiences to them, and consequences of them.
  • “Friends and loved ones often get frustrated...They may even say that the person has nothing to be depressed about. Depression is a real mental illness. Those who have depression cannot simply decide to stop feeling depressed. Unlike typical sadness or worry, depression feels all-consuming and hopeless.”

    • ]]>     2021-05-19 23:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1541628526     Where Does Blame Belong: Person or Disorder (Personal Expertise) kyrshiv https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1541632771 Are there neurological reasons or factors as to why depression can lead to cocaine abuse?

    FIndings were that there is a distinct link between mental health and drug addiction that lies in brain chemistry itself, and other social factors that contribute to someone choosing self-medication as treatment. The feelings of depression and cocaine are both explained, and personal experiences are used to connect them.]]>     2021-05-19 23:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1541632771     Societal Position kyrshiv https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1541643943 The article describes common methods and reasoning behind self-medicating with drugs or alcohol. Talks about how depression and anxiety are common disorders that result in turning to substance abuse, and how the nature of those disorders can encourage that course of action. Article also goes through the risks of self-medicating on mental health overall.]]> 2021-05-19 23:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1541643943 Subject Expertise kyrshiv https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1541647121
  • Article explains how suffering from persistent negative emotions during adolescence can encourage risky and harmful behavior in an effort to self-regulate. Describes that suffering from anhedonia and dysphoria, brought on by mental illness, increases the risk of substance abuse schizophrenics. Article also mentions the overlap in the development of psychosis and addiction, and how the dopaminergic system plays a large role.
  • This article supports my research because it explains the relationship between mental health and drug addiction by talking about the overlapping causes of schizophrenia and addiction. This article also supports my research because it demonstrates what chemicals and parts of the brain are being altered that will result in these conditions; suffering from anhedonia, dysphoria, and faulty dopaminergic and glutamatergic systems. There are symptoms of schizophrenia that are the same for depression, which provides a connection.
  • “Anhedonia can be defined as a psychological condition characterized by inability to experience pleasure in normally pleasurable acts, and is related to the concept of dysphoria, which can be defined as a state of feeling unwell or unhappy”


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  • This article goes through a study that was done that showed the changes in demographic and psychological profile of cocaine users. Also explains how the association of cocaine with depression was not prevalent until the 1990s, which explains why suffering from depression can be a factor in developing a coke addiction.
  • This article supports my essay because it explains why cocaine would seem like a reasonable option for someone suffering from depression, because of the social shift in views of the drug, and how once those shifts are made; another demographic/type of person will be attracted to that drug.

    • “However, Musto (1999) observed that over the course of the 1980s the most severe effects of cocaine use became apparent as its use became more widespread, and public opinion shifted to view cocaine as a more dangerous drug than previously perceived. Data from national studies show a sharp increase in the perceived risk of cocaine between the years 1986 and 1987, which continued to rise more gradually into the early 1990s”

    Original Citation: 
    Bohnert, Amy S. B., and Richard A. Miech. “Changes in the Association of Drug Use with Depressive Disorders in Recent Decades: The Case of Cocaine.” Substance Use & Misuse, vol. 45, no. 10, July 2010, pp. 1452–1462. EBSCOhost, doi:10.3109/10826081003777550.
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  • This article describes the appeal and risks of using cocaine to deal with depression. This article talks about the rough withdrawal with cocaine, and how this process along with depression, encourages the cycle of addiction. The dangers of doing cocaine long term are also explored, and how doing cocaine can cause users to suffer from depression even if they don't suffer prior to addiction. The article also explains what’s happening to the brain throughout the course of this addiction, and how there’s overlap in what happens with depression, from a chemical standpoint.
  • The article supports my essay because it supports the idea of self-medication, but it also explains how falling down the rabbit hole of addiction can actually worsen the depression over time. Breaking down this issue allows for the reader to understand how serious this problem is; in doing drugs to feel better, everything gets worse over time. Not only is this a fact, but it also provides another viewpoint to why drugs are appealing to those with depression; it intertwines with the poor mental state and takes over.
  • “Even when people who have depression and use cocaine do not develop a substance use disorder, they ultimately worsen their depression. Chronic cocaine use changes brain chemistry in a way that deepens and prolongs dysphoria and makes it harder to feel happy. When people use cocaine to feel better, they prevent themselves from achieving long-term recovery from depression symptoms.”


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  • This article describes how emotions being out of sync in adolescence is especially dangerous, and can lead to the development of harmful habits and dangerous routines in an effort to self-regulate. This article also touches on the subject of escapism, and how substance abuse and other dangerous behaviours or habits can be seen as a way to get out of real life, and not have to deal with the problems that present themselves. 
  • This article supports my essay because I was able to connect my personal experiences to the academic credibility of the contents. This article describes some of the things I have been through, and answers some of the “why” or “how” questions that come with that. 
  • “This outcome may be particularly dangerous in the adolescent, as he might try to regulate these undesired states and symptoms, for example, with substances use and abuse (especially cannabis or entactogen substances such as MDMA), addictive behaviors (Internet Addiction, Internet Gaming Disorder, Mobile-Phone Addiction, Online Gambling), and impulsive and risky conducts (including non-suicidal self-harm injuries). As a consequence, the emergence of suicidal ideation, together with the worsening of the psychiatric symptoms and hopelessness, rapidly becomes critical.”


    • ]]>     2021-05-19 23:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1541706507     WildCard kyrshiv https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1549410051 This image shows the difference in doapmine receptors in the brains of cocaine users. This shows how people can become easily dependent on the drug, and how hard things will seem whether from depression or the drugs.]]> 2021-05-21 23:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kyrshiv/FA20Essay4Shivers/wish/1549410051