Lindsay Lohan was born on July 2, 1986. She is the oldest of 4 kids and her parents are divorced. Her dad was not very much a part of her life growing up and to this day she does not have anything to do with him. Lohan was a rising child star who started her acting career at the age of three. She starred in many commercials before showcasing her fabulous acting ability when she appeared in the remake of Parent Trap in 1998. She took a little time off after this showcase to be a “normal” child. After dropping out of high school, she had a few bigger screen acting jobs and some extra shots in daytime television (Current Biography, 2005).
Lohan had a desire to make sure she set a good image because she knew the audience in which she was most desired by was the younger “tween” crowd. Also, her younger sister looked up to her so Lohan wanted to make sure she was setting a good example; all while she wanted to be normal and not set off a fake image (Current Biography, 2005).
Lindsay Lohan has had a lot of attention from her drinking and driving issues and her party lifestyle. Many people will focus on those things, but what is the underlying cause? From a Psychodynamic perspective, Lohan’s addiction to drugs and alcohol stem all the way back to childhood. Lohan had both parents, mother Dina Lohan and father Michael Lohan. Dina Lohan was very present in Lindsay’s young life and is still very much a part of her life now. Michael on the other hand was very absent. Although he was able to give his family a life of comfort from selling a profitable pasta business, he was very consumed by his position on Wall Street (Current Biography, 2005). Lohan has been dealing with “deep rooted issues with her father” stated a member of her inner c...
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...take to really work through her problems. She also does not have a very stable support group to keep her grounded so she may end up falling off because they do not help to support her. She may also not want to leave the party scene so this may be a big struggle. She has the need to be around people, which in turn gets filled by the party scene. This would be hard for her to fill that need if she did not go out.
On another note, these treatments would be highly successful if she actually participated. If she was truly committed to getting better and she fully participated in the therapy and stopped going to areas in which stimulated her substance abuse problem, she would be fine in life. She may need continual therapy and support, but she would become the successful actress she has so long desired to be; and the community has so long desired for her to be also.
... drugs and alcohol cost Barrymore a Grandfather, and a relationship with both her mother and father. These two are the epitome of a tragic hero because they both fly high and fall hard because of their own folly.
From a young age, Lohan was constantly starring in ads such as Gap and Pizza Hut, and modeling for Magazines like Vogue and Elle. She continued to go on, securing a role in Another World, an opera that previously starred Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Later, she earned roles in big movies, such as Freaky Friday, Herbie Fully Loaded and Just my Luck. She got her first breakthrough in the movie, The Parent Trap, which earned 84 million worldwide. The hit movie, Mean Girls, marked the peak of Lohan’s career. The film earned 129 million and earned her multiple awards from places like MTV Movie Awards and Teen Choice Awards. For a limited amount of time, she became the highest paid actress of her generation. Lohan then began to launch a singing career, releasing an album calling, Speak, which generated loads of money due to her high celebrity
In the end it seems as though there is no real moral or lesson to be learned. She wasn't really an addict; she just liked to drink. No long recovery, no epiphany. No treatment, no withdrawal problems. No lasting health issues. No real permanent problems in the end.
...lized indefinitely (cf. Gray/O’Reilly 2009). This would be indeed akin to being incarcerated for the rest of her life, something usually reserved for serious criminal offenders. Only her treatment would probably improve her condition insofar that she will be able to be released. All in all, this alternative seems worse than involuntary medication.
Honestly, all the treatment plans in the world may fix a problem but there will always be a reoccurrence if support from friends and family is not provided. For instance, going through family therapy is a positive option to choose from when trying to treat a disorder. Also with outside influences contributing to Brandy’s disorder, there is a limited chance she will recover completely. For example, societal pressures from coworkers contribute to her prognosis alongside her parents influence. Brandy’s family environment is rather negative considering her mom’s own personal weight issue and her father’s sexual overtones. In conclusion, if Brandy does recover, there is a high chance she will have a relapse and turn to her previous pathways. However, there is always hope she overcomes her issues after treatment and eventually find a supportive base of
This episode of Intervention on A&E Network follows the addiction of Latisha from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Latisha is thirty-nine years old, unemployed, and currently lives with her boyfriend, Dominic, that she has known for less than two months. Latisha married her boyfriend at the time, Chris, when she was sixteen and divorced him when she was twenty-five. During her marriage, Latisha had two children, Solomon and Sadiha. After Latisha’s divorce, she had a daughter, Tuesday, from another man. Latisha has been addicted to crack cocaine since she was fifteen years old. In the episode, Latisha admits to smoking crack up to fifty times a day, accumulating about twenty hours a day of smoking. In order to pay for the drugs since she is unemployed, Latisha prostitutes herself in her town. Latisha’s
Once these individuals in rehab serve there sentence the majority of them, won’t look straight to the next opportunity to get high, but the next opportunity for a better future after being encouraged in rehab to accomplish something in life, compared to someone’s attitude coming out of prison. One story involved a man named Richard with his wife Marcia. She was an addict who was often jailed for it, but Anthony believed like many others that “addiction can be overcome with proper help. He believed that the solution was to get her into a mental hospital [and] get her whatever she needs – Xanax, morphine, to get her chemical imbalance right. Show her some respect. (114)” Give her some working skills, so once she gets out she is capable of being successful but instead she kept getting “kicked down the steps” by the criminal justice system. The jailing and torture of addicts is routine to people serving cases for drug related offenses, who are often not built to endure prison, let alone jail. “The Justice Department estimates that 216,000 people are raped in these prisons every year. (This is the number of rapes, not the number of rapes – that is much higher.) (109)” This is ultimately shows the simple fact that many people are not built to endure
In the film 28 Days, Sandra Bullock plays Gwen, a troubled alcohol and drug addict, who is required to complete 28 days in rehab or prison time after a troubled incident under intoxication. With prison being a choice nobody wants to take, Gwen chooses rehab in order to help herself stay out of prison and attempt to relieve herself from her addictions. Throughout her time in rehab, film viewers can understand a type of drug treatment program an addict can go through. In the film, the program features a way for addicts to change whether in the end they succeed or fail and have to try again.
Inpatient treatment like what was shown in the movie, attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after she was released from rehab, and follow-up sessions with a counselor or support group as she tries to make new sober friends and rebuild her life and her relationship with her sister.
is a soft focus they want you to focus on Lohan but because her make
Drew Blythe Barrymore’s parents were John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore(She is half Hungarian from her mother’s side of the family) who were also famous actors. Drew has a half brother John Blythe Barrymore she and her brother get their middle name from there great-grandfather who was Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe who used Maurice Barrymore for his stage name. They get the name Drew from their great-grandmother Georgina Emma Drew. Drew didn’t end up getting much schooling done due to having to travel a lot to do work and movies and TV shows. Is half Hungarian from her mother’s side of the family.
to balance her relationship troubles, with her work life, and her social life while trying to
to races and parties all the time. All of this doesn't seem to help her
Modern society has made a sub-culture that lives in a reality that is not real. It is so far from the truth that the inhabitants of this sub-culture so often cannot live in both realities and have become a spectacle for others to marvel at. This sub-culture is made up of entertainers, millionaires, and athletes. The people in this group can range from newborns to death and some live on well after. The specimens that I find an interest in are the young ones that enter into this society not knowing well that their lives will never be the same. Britney Spears was just another victim of the society that brings into their prison.
She is not seeking treatment at this time. She stated that “the past was the past, Let it go!” My overall observable picture of the problem is Ms. Crawford unresolved childhood issues have led to her maladaptive behaviors that are not only affecting you, her relationships and family.