While teenagers may become addicts because of a trend in their milieu or because of their dysfunctional families, adults are likely victims of addiction in their moments of weakness, when they are struck by personal tragedies such as losing a loved person or a job, things they gave meaning to their life.
While all cases of addiction are equally heartbreaking, teenagers' are the saddest because of their limited, if not altogether nonexistent emotional or financial freedom. While adults are able to think, analyze and overcome crises, teenagers are less likely to be able to defend themselves against something they don't fully understand.
It's what we see, for instance, in the movie 'Rachel Is Getting Married', where Kim, the future bride's sister is a drug addict that practically killed her little brother in a car accident, while being high. Now she is leaving the drug rehab center for her sister's wedding but, although clean for nine months already, her psychological problems that pushed her into addiction are far from being solved. And how they could ever be, given that she is fond of her family that actually torments her every minute? Her mother is ice-cold and a hypocrite, her sister is likewise and envious into the bargain, believing that their father cares for Kim more than for her, and his father, too, although fond of her and obviously a good person, cannot accept she is an addict that needs curing. So how is he different from her sister that believes her a pathological liar, if neither of them is able to acknowledge that she is sick? Only family therapy could help in such a case.
Another movie analyzing addiction is 'Candy', in which we have three case studies: Casper, a successful middle-aged professor (having the habit to pay young men for sex), Dan, a would-be poet in love with heroin and Candy, and the latter in love with Dan and heroin, due to him, for the sake of sharing everything. While Casper seems to be lucid and balanced, the two lovers seem to be madly in love. Everything is an appearance though, because what defines them all is their addiction, that condition in which even if you want it, you can't quit drugs. Candy and Dan tried to give them up at some point when Candy was pregnant, but the withdrawal symptoms not only overpowered them but killed the baby. Why they use drugs when they love each other so? Because their love gets over time indistinguishable from their addiction, their love too is addictive, being based mainly on physical attraction. Candy became addictive also due to her unfeeling hypocritical mother, pretty similar to Kim's one.
Besides the uniqueness of every particular case, people seem to turn to drugs pushed by their milieu or family, due to escalating emotional or financial problems. As such, there are no quick solutions. The body may be cleaned successfully by nurses and physicians, who can also take care of the related withdrawal symptoms, but the psyche can get healed only over time, when freed of the habit of turning to drugs as to a prompt, if transient, escape.
While all cases of addiction are equally heartbreaking, teenagers' are the saddest because of their limited, if not altogether nonexistent emotional or financial freedom. While adults are able to think, analyze and overcome crises, teenagers are less likely to be able to defend themselves against something they don't fully understand.
It's what we see, for instance, in the movie 'Rachel Is Getting Married', where Kim, the future bride's sister is a drug addict that practically killed her little brother in a car accident, while being high. Now she is leaving the drug rehab center for her sister's wedding but, although clean for nine months already, her psychological problems that pushed her into addiction are far from being solved. And how they could ever be, given that she is fond of her family that actually torments her every minute? Her mother is ice-cold and a hypocrite, her sister is likewise and envious into the bargain, believing that their father cares for Kim more than for her, and his father, too, although fond of her and obviously a good person, cannot accept she is an addict that needs curing. So how is he different from her sister that believes her a pathological liar, if neither of them is able to acknowledge that she is sick? Only family therapy could help in such a case.
Another movie analyzing addiction is 'Candy', in which we have three case studies: Casper, a successful middle-aged professor (having the habit to pay young men for sex), Dan, a would-be poet in love with heroin and Candy, and the latter in love with Dan and heroin, due to him, for the sake of sharing everything. While Casper seems to be lucid and balanced, the two lovers seem to be madly in love. Everything is an appearance though, because what defines them all is their addiction, that condition in which even if you want it, you can't quit drugs. Candy and Dan tried to give them up at some point when Candy was pregnant, but the withdrawal symptoms not only overpowered them but killed the baby. Why they use drugs when they love each other so? Because their love gets over time indistinguishable from their addiction, their love too is addictive, being based mainly on physical attraction. Candy became addictive also due to her unfeeling hypocritical mother, pretty similar to Kim's one.
Besides the uniqueness of every particular case, people seem to turn to drugs pushed by their milieu or family, due to escalating emotional or financial problems. As such, there are no quick solutions. The body may be cleaned successfully by nurses and physicians, who can also take care of the related withdrawal symptoms, but the psyche can get healed only over time, when freed of the habit of turning to drugs as to a prompt, if transient, escape.
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