Parker Pare
Monsters and Misfits
Ms. Barklow
April 30, 2019
Research summary
Chronic heavy drinking or serious alcohol dependency can lead to significant brain damage. Long-term alcohol abuse has many serious, and some life-threatening, effects. It may cause the brain to atrophy. Memory and learning impairments increase. Cognitive abilities (including decision-making, impulse control, and acquiring, storing, retrieving and using information) are diminished. The brain becomes smaller and less dense, and there are regional changes in brain activity. Nerve cells are lost and the brain's white matter--the network of fibers that facilitates communication among neurons--is damaged. Balance may be permanently affected, and central auditory pathways may be damaged, resulting in hearing loss( Alcohol: what it does to your brain, Page 6). In my adaptation retired Detective Hodges is a heavy drinker after he finally caught Mr Mercedes he starts to develop metal problems from drinking. This source explains what alcohol can do to the brain.
Ted Bundy was a very notorious unsuspected serial killer who killed and raped many woman Hodges is going to become like Ted Bundy being an unsuspected killer. “The Question is was, how he could seem so normal and friendly at times and yet be so evil at other times?” (Ramsland, Katherine, Page 24) Hodges is going to act like a normal person and fool everyone.
Hodges has seen a lot of death and gruesome things being a detective for so long and lost his family because of a divorce and all of that mixed loneliness, and death added up to PTSD. “Special Forces soldiers often had a long history of accepting and accomplishing challenges. This is different from mastering childhood adversity such as deaths, relocations, or family job loss.”(Friedman, Leonard R, Page 4)
“Externalizing disorders are conceived as disorders that are manifested in a variety of aberrant behaviors. These behaviors can include sexual and physical aggression, verbal aggression, suicidal and parasuicidal acts, substance abuse, and sometimes even criminal activity.”(Blossom, Paige, and Jack Apsche, Page 29). Hodges is a very lonely person after he caught the killer and finally retired he started to go insane from the loneliness.
“Effects of loneliness as PTSD including discomfort within social situations, feelings of isolation, hyper vigilance and depression; in adolescents this disorder has lethal, comorbid behaviors associated with suicide and parasuicide.”(Blossom, Paige, and Jack Apsche, Page 29) Being lonely can cause PTSD like in his case he has two causes of PTSD and a ton of reasons of becoming crazy. Or the new killer...
“There is a cultural variability around the perception of what causes the syndrome of schizophrenia. As far as the causes schizophrenia by the general public concerned, people living in western countries focus mainly on biological and social risk factors such as genetic vulnerabilities, disease of the brain, infection or stressful social conditions or personal weakness”(Solomon, Melat, et al, Page 1) He develops schizophrenia in the story along with all the other problems he developed and that’s why he’s become so messed up.
Work Cited
“Alcohol: What It Does to Your Brain: Is That Evening Cocktail Your Friend, on Your Enemy? Here’s How to Tell When Drinking May Be Causing You Harm.” Mind, Mood & Memory, no. 1, 2007, p. 1. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.158525548&site=eds-live.
Ramsland, Katherine. “The Many Sides of Ted Bundy.” Forensic Examiner, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 18. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=edo&AN=90223404&site=eds-live.
Friedman, Leonard R. "What causes PTSD?" Current Psychiatry, vol. 6, no. 8, 2007, p. 4. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A168180888/AONE?u=maine&sid=AONE&xid=38a21f85. Accessed 2 May 2019.
Blossom, Paige, and Jack Apsche. “Effects of Loneliness on Human Development.” The International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, no. 4, 2013, p. 28. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=congale&AN=edsgcl.323857433&site=eds-live.
Solomon, Melat, et al. “Perceptions of the Causes of Schizophrenia and Associated Factors by the Holy Trinity Theological College Students in Ethiopia.” Annals of General Psychiatry, no. 1, 2018. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1186/s12991-018-0213-3.
Monsters and Misfits
Ms. Barklow
April 30, 2019
Research summary
Chronic heavy drinking or serious alcohol dependency can lead to significant brain damage. Long-term alcohol abuse has many serious, and some life-threatening, effects. It may cause the brain to atrophy. Memory and learning impairments increase. Cognitive abilities (including decision-making, impulse control, and acquiring, storing, retrieving and using information) are diminished. The brain becomes smaller and less dense, and there are regional changes in brain activity. Nerve cells are lost and the brain's white matter--the network of fibers that facilitates communication among neurons--is damaged. Balance may be permanently affected, and central auditory pathways may be damaged, resulting in hearing loss( Alcohol: what it does to your brain, Page 6). In my adaptation retired Detective Hodges is a heavy drinker after he finally caught Mr Mercedes he starts to develop metal problems from drinking. This source explains what alcohol can do to the brain.
Ted Bundy was a very notorious unsuspected serial killer who killed and raped many woman Hodges is going to become like Ted Bundy being an unsuspected killer. “The Question is was, how he could seem so normal and friendly at times and yet be so evil at other times?” (Ramsland, Katherine, Page 24) Hodges is going to act like a normal person and fool everyone.
Hodges has seen a lot of death and gruesome things being a detective for so long and lost his family because of a divorce and all of that mixed loneliness, and death added up to PTSD. “Special Forces soldiers often had a long history of accepting and accomplishing challenges. This is different from mastering childhood adversity such as deaths, relocations, or family job loss.”(Friedman, Leonard R, Page 4)
“Externalizing disorders are conceived as disorders that are manifested in a variety of aberrant behaviors. These behaviors can include sexual and physical aggression, verbal aggression, suicidal and parasuicidal acts, substance abuse, and sometimes even criminal activity.”(Blossom, Paige, and Jack Apsche, Page 29). Hodges is a very lonely person after he caught the killer and finally retired he started to go insane from the loneliness.
“Effects of loneliness as PTSD including discomfort within social situations, feelings of isolation, hyper vigilance and depression; in adolescents this disorder has lethal, comorbid behaviors associated with suicide and parasuicide.”(Blossom, Paige, and Jack Apsche, Page 29) Being lonely can cause PTSD like in his case he has two causes of PTSD and a ton of reasons of becoming crazy. Or the new killer...
“There is a cultural variability around the perception of what causes the syndrome of schizophrenia. As far as the causes schizophrenia by the general public concerned, people living in western countries focus mainly on biological and social risk factors such as genetic vulnerabilities, disease of the brain, infection or stressful social conditions or personal weakness”(Solomon, Melat, et al, Page 1) He develops schizophrenia in the story along with all the other problems he developed and that’s why he’s become so messed up.
Work Cited
“Alcohol: What It Does to Your Brain: Is That Evening Cocktail Your Friend, on Your Enemy? Here’s How to Tell When Drinking May Be Causing You Harm.” Mind, Mood & Memory, no. 1, 2007, p. 1. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.158525548&site=eds-live.
Ramsland, Katherine. “The Many Sides of Ted Bundy.” Forensic Examiner, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 18. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=edo&AN=90223404&site=eds-live.
Friedman, Leonard R. "What causes PTSD?" Current Psychiatry, vol. 6, no. 8, 2007, p. 4. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A168180888/AONE?u=maine&sid=AONE&xid=38a21f85. Accessed 2 May 2019.
Blossom, Paige, and Jack Apsche. “Effects of Loneliness on Human Development.” The International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, no. 4, 2013, p. 28. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=congale&AN=edsgcl.323857433&site=eds-live.
Solomon, Melat, et al. “Perceptions of the Causes of Schizophrenia and Associated Factors by the Holy Trinity Theological College Students in Ethiopia.” Annals of General Psychiatry, no. 1, 2018. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1186/s12991-018-0213-3.