Alcohol Abuse In Jane Jackson's Life

Jane Jackson is a thirty year old caucasian female who has lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin her whole life. Growing up most of her family had different variations of drug and alcohol abuse, including her father. Lucky for Jane, this alcoholism did not make her father abusive towards her or anyone in her family. He was very high functioning and was still around, if a little intoxicated, for all of the important moments in her life. The drinking never truly bothered her until people had told her that it was supposed to when she got into high school. To her, her father's slurred speech and stumbling had been a normal in her life. Her Grandmother always had these “issues” before she died where she would spend days in bed and then days up and cooking

Their relationship started to sour when Jane started to feel out of place. She would have long periods of insomnia and a lack of appetite along with a large lack of energy and motivation. Soon Jane found it hard to even get out of bed and do work for the clientele she still had. This lasted altogether for about four months, Paul leaving her after two. Once Paul had left the symptoms worsened into becoming irritable and closed off from the people she loved. After about another two months of this, Jane found herself with large and uncontrollable bursts of energy that she describes as, “a big ball of energy that she just can’t control”. Jane found herself up at all hours of the night writing and creating business ideas and drinking. Jane had never been much of a drinker before this outburst. Normally, Jane was very careful with how much alcohol she consumed and only ever drank socially. She purposefully avoided alcohol throughout her four month depression in order to avoid a possible addiction. During this episode, however, Jane says she, “Felt like I wasn't going to become addicted because I knew better than that and could control myself. But I really couldn't. I would do these rash things for no reason other than I truly believed I was in the right. I had this grandiose sense of self importance and I just felt on top of the whole world. I started just