Growing Up In A Case Of Diana Travine
Diana Travine is a 43 year old, African American woman with a long-term addiction to injecting heroin and prescription pain medication and tranquillizers. In the beginning, she was first introduced to heroin at the college age where she would do it only with her friends and was sure to use sterile needles. Unfortunately she continued to use, increasing in frequency, with no regard to the presence of others. At this point, she is no longer able to feel any significant high from the heroin. Diana now lives alone in a suburban townhouse. An accounting job with a gas and oil company is maintained and she is an active member of her church.
Five Issues Recently she was admitted to the hospital for what she presumed to be symptoms of pneumonia …show more content…
Growing up in a family with rigid moral and cultural values, it provoked feelings of shame and left her isolated in dealing with current issues. Her father is the minister of the church and had high expectations for all three of his children. Her older sister, Selma, is doing the most in the way of a prosperous family including three children and harvested a career as a university professor, soon to obtain a PhD. Pete, her younger brother, owns an electric company and has no children. In the profile, there is mention of his taste for alcohol. This indicates that their strict upbringing likely had a negative effect on him as well. All three children managed to live up to certain expectations professionally, though are lacking in certain aspects of their personal lives. For example, they are all considered “workhorses” and are not providing the effort into the creation of a strong support system for each other. This is likely the reason why Diana has not shared her drug use with any family members. Another consideration is that Diana could consider herself the least successful among her siblings and may resent them to some extent. Furthermore, she was prone to rebel during her college years given her new found freedom away from the confines set by a rigid and religious
Five Issues Recently she was admitted to the hospital for what she presumed to be symptoms of pneumonia …show more content…
Growing up in a family with rigid moral and cultural values, it provoked feelings of shame and left her isolated in dealing with current issues. Her father is the minister of the church and had high expectations for all three of his children. Her older sister, Selma, is doing the most in the way of a prosperous family including three children and harvested a career as a university professor, soon to obtain a PhD. Pete, her younger brother, owns an electric company and has no children. In the profile, there is mention of his taste for alcohol. This indicates that their strict upbringing likely had a negative effect on him as well. All three children managed to live up to certain expectations professionally, though are lacking in certain aspects of their personal lives. For example, they are all considered “workhorses” and are not providing the effort into the creation of a strong support system for each other. This is likely the reason why Diana has not shared her drug use with any family members. Another consideration is that Diana could consider herself the least successful among her siblings and may resent them to some extent. Furthermore, she was prone to rebel during her college years given her new found freedom away from the confines set by a rigid and religious