Intrusive Imagery in Alcohol and Drug Users: Prevalence, Nature and links with Memories and Maintenance Cycles

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background1

Introduction1

Theoretical framework1

Aim and objective of the study2

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW3

Intrusive imagery3

Issues related to intrusive imagery3

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY5

Present study rationale5

Hypothesis5

Sample data analysis5

Population6

Ethical concern7

REFERENCES9

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background

During the day, the flashbacks can occur through intrusive memories (images, thoughts or perceptions). It may also be that the person has the feeling that the event is happening again in the present (flashbacks, hallucinations, illusions, flashbacks) and react as if it happened for real. During the night, the event may emerge in the form of dreams that cause discomfort to the person (Thomson & Page 2007).

Introduction

Moreover, drug/alcohol user has intrusive imagery suffering that has increasingly exposed to stimuli associated with the trauma or assignable, which is doing just avoid them. Thus, make great efforts to not think, feel or talk about the event and avoids activities, places or people that remind him. It focuses on reducing stimuli that could reactivate the traumatic experience and, this avoidance so great, just preventing the entry of positive stimuli (Taylor & Asmundson 2004).

Theoretical framework

This study is about the intrusive imagery in alcohol and drug users. Alcoholism was defined as drinking resulted in injury to his health or to his social or economic functioning. Contacts were made with area social service agencies to make this determination (Hackmann & Holmes 2004). The participants of controls were not examined to determine if alcoholism was or was not present. It is very questionable whether the questionnaire measured what it proposed to measure. It is also questionable whether the teachers were really blind to the identity of the sons of alcoholics. The case and control groups may not be similar except in age and no measure was taken to ensure similarity in factors other than the controlled variable (Creed & Barsky 2004).

Aim and objective of the study

The aim of the study is to understand the intrusive imagery in drug and alcohol users. The objectives of the study are as follow:

To understand the impact of alcohol on health

How drug and alcohol lead to intrusive imagery

What are the medication strategies for this issue

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

Intrusive imagery

In general, the person with intrusive cannot tell the traumatic event in a comprehensive and coherent. It is because the brain has a fundamental difficulty to integrate it into other events of past life memories ordinary s' fade with time. While the memories of traumatic events keep all their intensity, even after several years. This is why the trauma always seems to be a recent event. Elements reminiscent of the trauma may promote the onset of symptoms of intrusive, flashbacks, intrusive thoughts and nightmares. When in the presence of several injuries, activation of memory one can activate the memory of another. For example, the helplessness felt in a road accident can activate the memory of impotence felt during the physical or sexual abuse suffered in childhood (Brewin & Holmes 2003).

Issues related to intrusive imagery

A person with intrusive imagery is in a ...