Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Compare and Contrast Intervention
Please take some time to compare and contrast Laurie and Jessie's addictions. Remember Laurie was addicted to pain killers and Jessie was the bulimic that was addicted to food. Think critically about how their addictions are similar, but then again all together different in their manifestations.
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In the intervention show, that we watched there was to females that had addictions. One of the females was addicted to eating but would purge it all the like and the other female was addicted to pain killers. Jessie was the bulimic female. She loves to eat food that her parents had to put pad locks on all cabinets and refrigerators in the house just to keep her from eating them out of a house and home. Laurie is a mother to three children and was addicted to pain pills. Doctors prescribed all of her pills and whenever she would have pain her doctors would prescribe her more painkillers. Laurie used all of those pills in the wrong way and she would take many of them in one setting. On the path way that they are going both of the females are risking their lives and probably would have died soon. The difference between the two is that Jessie wasn’t “high”. She was always sober until Laurie who received a high when she would take to many pills.
gabriella borden
In class we watched an intervention that delt with two people battling addictions. One of the ladies names was Laurie, and she was addicted to pain killers. The other girls name was Jessie and this girl was battling bulimia. In many ways these two females were similar, but they were also very different. In Jessie's case, she was addicted to eating as much food as possible and then throwing everything up, only to do it again a couple hours later. In Laurie's case, she was addicted to the pain killers she took that gave her the high she got. Both ladies battled extreme addictions that put them on the path to death or destruction of life. One of the main differences is the high that Laurie got. Although Jessie was addicted to this life style, she never got "high" from eating large portions of food and throwing it up, where as Laurie lives high through the overdosing of pain killers. Another big difference was the actual pill that Laurie was addicted to, where as Jessie was more addicted to the life style of living bulimic. - Sarah Cook
Most times when you hear of someone having an addiction, you usually think of alcohol or drugs. But not everyone's addiction is the same. In this episode, Jessie was addicted to food and used it so that she could feel like she's in control. Laurie was addicted to pain meds. They were similar because they had both been struggling with difficult circumstances when they chose to abuse food or pain meds to get back into control. For Jessie, once she got addicted to food she didn't necessarily keep eating so she could get "high". She was just bulimic because she wanted to be in control. Laurie on the other hand, started taking pain killers so that she could control her pain; but once she was addicted, the meds started controlling her.
*Hannah Adams
In the Intervention, Laurie and Jessie have completely different addictions but they are alike at the same time. Laurie is addicted to pills and Jessie is bulimic, addicted to food. Laurie is given pills for pain, but when she becomes depressed she takes more and more pills while believing they are not having a negative effect on her. Jessie eats food all of the time and then purges because she feels guilty for eating the food. The two addicts are the same because they are both have an addiction which affects their whole lives. Laurie’s family cannot live with her because of the effect her medicines have on her, and Jessie’s family is losing money because of her addiction to food that she is always buying. The ladies are different because they have different effects from their addictions. Laurie is physically altered because of her pills while Jessie is emotionally tied to food.
In the Intervention episode, there were two ladies who had addictions. Jesse was addicted to eating food and lots of it which is called being bulimic. Laurie on the other hand was addicted to pills. Both ladies are alike because they both feel strong urges to abuse their chosen substance. Jesse will go out and buy large amounts of food and eat all of it. Once she has done this, she goes and gets rid of it because she feels guilty for eating all the food and she thinks she is a bad person. Laurie is addicted to pills which her doctor prescribes to her for pain. When Laurie starts taking the dosage that her doctor prescribed, she feels the need to take more so she can experince no pain or feeling at all. This makes her extrememly impaired and endangers herself and others around her. That is a differnece between Laurie and Jesse because Jesse does not experince a high or does not become inpaired when she goes on a benge and eats large amounts of food unlike Laurie who becomes so impaired that she cannot do normal everyday things like walk or stand up without falling over. Even though their specific cases are very different, they both still have that strong, overwhelming urge to abuse their chosen substance.
During class we watched an intervention about two girls with different addictions. Laurie was addicted to pain pills and Jessie was addicted to food. Laurie was a mother of three who got in a car wreck and was prescribed medication for her injury. After a while she became addicted and had the custody of her children taken from her. SHe used way to many in one setting and became high off the pills. Jessie was a young lady who ate enough food for about three days in one sitting, then she purged it all up so she could eat more. It became so ridiculous that her parents had to put a lock on the refridgerator because the could not afford her addiction anymore. Their addictions are similar because both are addicted to something that makes them feel better about themselves. Also, they are both addicted to legal things, since food and pain pills are not illegal. The difference between Laurie and Jessie is Jessie did not have a medical 'high' like Laurie did. Her high was feeling in control of her body after she ate that much. With both addictions both ladies were risking their lives and loosing their families.
-Samantha Bruner
Both Jessie and Laurie were addicts, but to two different things. Jessie was addicted to food, and she was bulimic. Laurie was addicted to pain killers. Jessie’s addiction never really caused her to do things out of her control besides eating too much. However, Laurie would get high off of the pills she took, and it caused her to not act correctly because she was in a different state of consciousness. Both of these addicts’ lives were run by their certain addictions. Jessie was constantly eating then throwing it up, and Laurie was constantly taking these pills, and she couldn’t lead a normal life. Co-dependence was evident in both of these women’s lives. Both of their families worried greatly about them. Jessie’s parents had to spend great amounts of money on food, and Laurie could not live with her children. Laurie’s oldest daughter often ended up taking care of her mother rather than the other way around. Both of these addicts had troubled lives and finally realized what their addictions were doing to them and their families.
Meredith Peacock
In the Intervention, Laurie and Jessie have completely different addictions but they are alike at the same time. Laurie is addicted to pills and Jessie is bulimic, addicted to food. Lauries addiction to painkillers got her kids taken away from her and messed up her marriage. Jessie who is the bulimic is slowly killing herself from all the binging and throwing up of the food. The difference between the two is even though laurie got high off of the pills jessie gets the high she needs off of her binging and throwing up of the food after. Even though their specific cases are very different, they both still have that strong, overwhelming urge to abuse their chosen substance.
-Shaun (Mcbreezy) McCool
In intervention, they showed a woman (Laurie) addicted to pain killers and a woman (Jessie) addicted to purging her food. Jessie and Laurie were similar in ways like how it affected their families. Jessie's parents put locks on the fridge and eventually kicked her out. Jessie was hurting her family by costing them hundreds of dollars and by putting her family through her purging. Laurie also destroyed her family, she was never the mother that her kids needed, and eventually her kids got taken from her. Jessie and Laurie were different because Jessie never got high from being bulemic, but Laurie did get a high from her medicine.
In Intervention, we watched Jessie and Laurie, two women who were very similar because of their addictions, but completely different people because of their personalities. Laurie was addicted to pain killers and Jessie was bulimic. These to women were similar in their addictions because both seemed like they could not live with out their own “drug”. Another way they were similar is because they did not really heed the warning of their families and friends. There are obviously different because of their situations growing up, and how they lived now.
Jessie and Laurie were both addicts from the show Intervention, but they were addicted to different things. Jessie was bulimic, so she would eat uncontrollably for a day then throw it up. Laurie was addicted to pain medication and was high all the time. Both of these women were controlled by their addictions. Every single part of their lives were affected, and it hurt relationships with the ones they cared about. They also felt that they couldn't live without the drug. A major difference is the affect on the addict. Laurie was constantly in another state of consciousness while Jessie seemed completely normal. Both were killing themselves, but Laurie made it more apparent than Jessie did. Each woman had a different reason for starting out, and the addictions are completely different. In the end, it came down to both had a problem and needed help, or they were going to die.
In the Intervention, Jessie and Laurie were both to women struggling with an addiction. Jessie had an addiction to eating large portions of food but then forcing herself to throw up after her binge. Laurie was addicted to pain killers and to the high she got from them. The similarities between Jessie and Laurie are that they both struggle with an addiction and are destroying their lives and relationships with theire families and friends. The differences are that Jessie isn't addicted to a drug or to a high, just a lifestyle. Laurie is addicted to the drugs and high she obtains from the pills.
Kailey McGee :)
Any kind of addiction is harmful to a person. Laurie is a woman who is addicted to pain killers. It is ruining her life. It is to the point that she cannot even function like a normal person because she is so messed up all the time. Jessie is a bulimic. She eats so much at a time that her parents have kicked her out of their house. At different times she has had up to 30lb. of puke in bags in her room. Both ladies are slowly killing theirselves. they believe they cant live if they stop dong what their doing. They are also different because laurie is you just see her you know somthingis wrong with her, but Jessie is just as sick but looks completly fine and normal and healthy.
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