Episode Of Intervention Paper

This episode of intervention was about Melissa and her drug addiction and abuse. Melissa is a single mom who is 32 years old. She first started her drug habits at the age of 16 when she tried marijuana for the first time. Eventually when her drug of choice didn’t do it enough for her she went to newer drugs to get a better and new type of high. When Melissa was pregnant she stayed sober. Even after her son was born she was sober for a year or so. But when her dad came back into her life she found out that he had been a drug addict his whole life. When the family found this out they shut him out which caused Melissa to spiral out of control. The drug that they mainly talk about in the episode that Melissa is addicted to is crack cocaine which is classified as a stimulant drug in the "Major Types of Commonly Abused Drugs". How Melissa gets this type of drug is by selling her body so that she can get paid to buy or gets paid by crack.
Some biological based factors Melissa has are; tendency to amplify outside or internal stimuli and difficulty in screening out unwanted or bothersome outside stimuli. We see tendency to amplify outside or internal stimuli this happen when she enters the room for
Low self-esteem in Melissa's story I would say is because growing up she never had a father figure around because her dad left but also the men her mother dated weren't all the great. They also believe that Melissa was abused by the men that were with her mom which could cause many problems besides low self-esteem. We see Melissa low self-esteem right in the episode though when she tell her mom that she just gets high to get away and that she can't do it anymore. Melissa has many internal conflicts we see this with in the clip of the intervention when she isnt open to rehab until the interventionist reads the letter from her son colby. THis is because she has so much guilt inside her for losing her