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  1. my book is titled We All Fall Down and was written by Nick Chef.
  2. It's your memoir of his life as a struggling addict.
  3. After reading this book and discussing materials I learned in class,
  4. I came up with the thesis
  5. The States.
  6. But when we interact with someone that we care for,
  7. there's a strong emotional connection that can be
  8. seen with high activation and then Magdala,
  9. this strong emotional response causes us to learn from and be hyper operational
  10. slash of aware
  11. of that person
  12. when we are in that state.
  13. If the observed person is using drugs
  14. slash enacts addictive behaviors than the observer,
  15. can become more addiction grown and learn through observation
  16. now, what does that exactly mean?
  17. So I put this in here to just explain through a different way.
  18. So I put the batman and Robin picture in here
  19. two as an example of two people who have this close relationship.
  20. Now,
  21. this close relationship can be measured by high activation
  22. in the amygdala as it regulates these emotions.
  23. So when batman and Robin around each other with more activation in the amygdala,
  24. they will be highly observant of each other,
  25. meaning that they will be more likely to pick up
  26. on things that each other does because of that closeness.
  27. This can apply to other social situations such as shopping,
  28. where people, when you're with your friends, it's highly emotional process,
  29. you might be more likely to buy more things if they're buying more things or in a
  30. scenario in college where you see a lot of drinking and you're with your friends.
  31. So you might be peer pressured, which is another aspect that plays into this
  32. And the Mosquito 2018 article that we read in class.
  33. It focused on cross cultural examination of different personality pathways to
  34. alcohol use and it kind of focused on different personalities,
  35. causing more susceptibility to alcoholism.
  36. So
  37. kind of to just get a general summary of the story and how I came up with this thesis
  38. um in the beginning of the story,
  39. if I was nick in new york where he attempts to attain crystal meth,
  40. which is the main drug of choice
  41. and how he's in love with this girl named Zelda. Um it has an extreme longing for her
  42. um even though Zelda is the main one that kind of causes
  43. him to go to this relapse state and get these drugs,
  44. which eventually causes both of them to lose all
  45. the relationships with their friends and their families.
  46. Next, he attends a stripped,
  47. a strict rehab center in Arizona where he follows 12 step model
  48. that we learned about in class and he has a sponsor,
  49. which is that
  50. um this kind of follows that same narrative of
  51. of that discussion,
  52. talk with yourself and finding higher power that we also discussing clause.
  53. And during that, during that rehab center,
  54. it's a very strict center where he can't have any other connections or close bonds,
  55. but he does secretly find a bond, there's another girl Sue Ellen
  56. um which is kind of like a Romeo and Juliet love
  57. story in a way where they kind of meet up at night
  58. in the forest and that eventually really helps nick move on
  59. past his ex girlfriend and moved on past his past addictions.
  60. So a theme in this book
  61. and
  62. his next over think he keeps on overthinking things,
  63. especially when it comes to his past relationship Zelda,
  64. he always wants to be with her, he, when he talks about it with his therapist,
  65. he chokes up.
  66. Um
  67. he really is just confused on his thoughts with her
  68. and I think that mindfulness would really help mix um kind of confused,
  69. confused mind that he has, he has all these mixed thoughts
  70. and that does mixed thoughts,
  71. he kind of uses those drugs to kind of relapse those feelings and he just wants to go
  72. back to Zelda because his ex girlfriend is comfortable
  73. but he has to move past that situation.
  74. So another thing that is similar to what we talked about in class, that relates this,
  75. nick was approached with the 12 step model and he really did not like it.
  76. Um he says in the book that he doesn't believe in
  77. the 12 step program and that he thinks that his personality
  78. isn't right for so I think that this plays into the
  79. part where you see a different personality types work with different
  80. treatment with its
  81. so here another connection to class, I wanted to talk about the meso limbic pathway,
  82. how we talked,
  83. how the about how the Magdala plays a role during stress and how it switches
  84. from the thoughtful prefrontal cortex regulation to
  85. the rapid emotional response of the Magdala.
  86. In another study that I found focused on how the interior singular cortex
  87. and the base of letter of Magdala both
  88. alter real time and make the middle of representation
  89. and how this observational learning and operate conditioning.
  90. Study rats learn differently based off activation in the medulla.
  91. In conclusion,
  92. I think that science has definitely found that there is a relationship between
  93. um the Magdala and how you learn and how you might be more addiction. Brown.
  94. And I think one way to combat this could possibly be motivational interviewing,
  95. which is what Nick went through that were really seemed to help him