Jekyll & Hyde Padlet by Jace Nazerian

jnazerian2 — 2023-10-31 15:01:25 UTC

Alcoholism & how it affects people.

Hunter

hbrachtenbach — 2023-10-31 15:04:40 UTC

shows how more people are going to addiction, like the potion, these addictions are very hard to remove from your life

Hunter

hbrachtenbach — 2023-10-31 15:08:26 UTC

Oregon is having a crisis with the addiction of fentanyl

hbrachtenbach — 2023-10-31 15:13:15 UTC

when Jekyll took the potion, his brain could have rewarded his system by releasing dopamine (which most drugs do). This release results into an addiciton.

How you addictions take over

hbrachtenbach — 2023-10-31 15:17:49 UTC

jnazerian2 — 2023-10-31 15:18:53 UTC

Drugs interfere with the way neurons send, receive, and process signals via neurotransmitters.

jnazerian2 — 2023-10-31 15:34:35 UTC

How addiction works and such

hbrachtenbach — 2023-10-31 15:37:44 UTC

Real life examples

hbrachtenbach — 2023-10-31 15:38:26 UTC

Although these drugs mimic the

jnazerian2 — 2023-10-31 15:38:35 UTC

brain’s own chemicals, they don’t activate neurons in the same way as a natural

neurotransmitter, and they lead to abnormal messages being sent through the network.

jnazerian2 — 2023-10-31 15:40:23 UTC

People with addiction often have one or more associated health issues, which could include lung or heart disease, stroke, cancer, or mental health conditions.

jnazerian2 — 2023-10-31 15:41:35 UTC

Drug use and other mental illness often co-exist. In some cases, mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, or schizophrenia may come before addiction. In other cases, drug use may trigger or worsen those mental health conditions, particularly in people with specific vulnerabilities

jnazerian2 — 2023-10-31 15:44:51 UTC

The basal ganglia, which play an important role in positive forms of motivation, including the pleasurable effects of healthy activities like eating, socializing, and sex, and are also involved in the formation of habits and routines. These areas form a key node of what is sometimes called the brain’s “reward circuit.” Drugs over-activate this circuit, producing the euphoria of the drug high. But with repeated exposure, the circuit adapts to the presence of the drug, diminishing its sensitivity and making it hard to feel pleasure from anything besides the drug.

jnazerian2 — 2023-10-31 15:45:38 UTC

The extended amygdala plays a role in stressful feelings like anxiety, irritability, and unease, which characterize withdrawal after the drug high fades and thus motivates the person to seek the drug again. This circuit becomes increasingly sensitive with increased drug use. Over time, a person with substance use disorder uses drugs to get temporary relief from this discomfort rather than to get high

jnazerian2 — 2023-10-31 15:46:01 UTC

The prefrontal cortex powers the ability to think, plan, solve problems, make decisions, and exert self-control over impulses. This is also the last part of the brain to mature, making teens most vulnerable. Shifting balance between this circuit and the circuits of the basal ganglia and extended amygdala make a person with a substance use disorder seek the drug compulsively with reduced impulse control.

jnazerian2 — 2023-11-02 15:31:22 UTC

"His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide, and return to his subordinate station of a part instead of a person; but he loathed the necessity, he loathed the despondency into which Jekyll was now fallen, and he resented the dislike with which he was himself regarded. Hence the ape-like tricks that he would play me, scrawling in my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books, burning the letters and destroying the portrait of my father; and indeed, had it not been for his fear of death, he would long ago have ruined himself in order to involve me in the ruin."

jnazerian2 — 2023-11-02 15:33:11 UTC

"This, then, is the last time, short of a miracle, that Henry Jekyll can think his own thoughts or see his own face (now how sadly altered!) in the glass. Nor must I delay too long to bring my writing to an end; for if my narrative has hitherto escaped destruction, it has been by a combination of great prudence and great good luck."

jnazerian2 — 2023-11-02 15:34:12 UTC

"It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me."

jnazerian2 — 2023-11-02 15:35:29 UTC

"My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring. I was conscious, even when I took the draught, of a more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill. It must have been this, I suppose, that stirred in my soul that tempest of impatience with which I listened to the civilities of my unhappy victim; I declare, at least, before God, no man morally sane could have been guilty of that crime upon so pitiful a provocation; and that I struck in no more reasonable spirit than that in which a sick child may break a plaything."

Jekyll and Hyde quotes:

hbrachtenbach — 2023-11-02 15:37:13 UTC

jnazerian2 — 2023-11-02 15:43:41 UTC

Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures. I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty

hbrachtenbach — 2023-11-10 02:18:29 UTC

A healthy brain rewards healthy behaviors—like exercising, eating, or bonding with loved ones. It does this by switching on brain circuits that make you feel wonderful, which then motivates you to repeat those behaviors. In contrast, when you’re in danger, a healthy brain pushes your body to react quickly with fear or alarm, so you’ll get out of harm’s way. If you’re tempted by something questionable—like eating ice cream before dinner or buying things you can’t afford—the front regions of your brain can help you decide if the consequences are worth the actions.

hbrachtenbach — 2023-11-10 02:19:13 UTC

“The brain actually changes with addiction, and it takes a good deal of work to get it back to its normal state. The more drugs or alcohol you’ve taken, the more disruptive it is to the brain.”

jchristoffersen — 2023-11-10 03:12:36 UTC

"I knew well that i risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity"

jchristoffersen — 2023-11-10 03:19:27 UTC

we can start talking about how drugs can get you hooked very easily and then someone can bring up a quote from the last chapter where Jekyll is talking about how he was fortified on all sides and he was starting to profit from the drug

hbrachtenbach — 2023-11-10 03:24:57 UTC

jnazerian2 — 2023-11-11 16:54:25 UTC

"I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; wither I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine."

jnazerian2 — 2023-11-11 17:02:31 UTC

“ I was stepping leisurely across the court after breakfast, drinking the chill of the air with pleasure, when I was seized again with those indescribable sensations that heralded the change; and I had but the time to gain the shelter of my cabinet, before I was once again raging and freezing with the passions of Hyde. It took on this occasion a double dose to recall me to myself; and alas! six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in the fire, the pangs returned, and the drug had to be re-administered”