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Olivia
One beautiful day Olivia, a 17-year-old girl, was getting ready to go to school, as she was
getting out of the house, she finds her dad leaving as he is always traveling now and then. Her
mom was sleeping on the couch after having a good night at a party. Olivia has to get to school
and pretend she is very okay, whereas she is very unhappy in her life. Olivia suffers from daddy
and mummy issues because they do not give her the attention she deserves. The environment in
which Olivia lives is too toxic, making her develop depression, anxiety, avoidance of people, and
ED. It is because of the fear of being alone that Olivia meets a guy called Noah who seems to
give her attention, and he ends up becoming her boyfriend. It is at this juncture that Olivia starts
abusing substances and starts partying.
Olivia, in her mood of spending time with her friends she begins to hear stories from her
friends about the boyfriend cheating. The case of Noah cheating tears Olivia apart even to abuse
drugs more. She felt so much betrayed and beat up, blaming herself for all the issues that had
befallen her in her life. She starts hating herself, making her develop self-esteem issues. On one
fateful day, Olivia overdosed, making her end up in a rehab center in LA. In the rehab center,
Olivia hopes to get help, but there was a process that had to be followed to get to understand why
Olivia had gotten to the point she was in her life. At the rehab, her parents decided enough is
enough, and a solution had to be found once and for call for Olivia to live a normal life like
people her age.
Olivia, on arrival to the rehab center she was given an inpatient treatment. Her mum also
decides to get treatment at a rehab center as Olivia completed her treatment. The dad also
decides to be home, and they all start enjoying quality time with each other. Olivia decides to
talk with her parents for them to iron out issues, making her healing fast. After some time, Olivia
gets back to school, and she starts performing better. It was through Olivia and her parents
talking that brought to an end the issues she and her parents had as a family. Psychoanalysis had
to be done to Olivia to enable the psychiatrists to solve Olivia’s problem. 
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis belongs to a set of psychological theories and is also a part of therapy
with its origin from the works of Sigmund Freud. The well-known assumption created by
psychoanalysis is that every individual has memories, desires, feelings, and unconscious
thoughts(Juan,420). Olivia, in this case, because of the issues faced with her mother, who is
a drug addict and father is always on the move, makes her feel that she is not getting the best
parental care, thus making depression develop, which pushes her to take drugs to a point where
she overdoses. Because she overdosed, she ends up in a rehab center in LA. To be treated, she
must agree to express herself for her emotional and mental problems to be treated by having
Olivia express her memories, dreams, and feelings.
Problems related to adolescents' substance abuse.
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The problem that Olivia could face for abusing drug as a youth if she was not taken to the
rehab as soon as she was discovered she was abusing drugs is that she would have involved
herself more in sexual behaviors, which maybe she found herself doing when she realized the
person who had offered her a listening ear who was her boyfriend had also betrayed her. She
could have also ended up with unwanted pregnancy making her a parent at a young age which
could have caused her even more trauma. She developed an eating disorder because of substance
abuse as she would not be able to take a healthy meal as even at home, no one looked after her.
At the time of her abusing substances, it posed her at risk of contracting sexually
transmitted diseases and HIV /AIDS. Her academic performance at the time she was abusing
substances due to the mental disorder she had ended up deteriorating (Quinn, et al .,880). At the
time she was abusing substances, she ended up losing her social life, which is a side effect of
substance abuse. While substance abuse is known to be a bad thing, it helped Olivia forget about
her problems for some time which was also a threat to her own life as the drugs could make her
injure herself and even cause death to herself due to taking over dosages. Olive, in her drug
usage she had passed through the four levels of addiction.
Addiction levels
The four levels of addiction include Experimentation, where she had started by taking
only a little bit of substances as she thought she was having fun. She later became a regular user
of the drugs ending up abusing them. When Olivia started taking the drug, it was for recreational
purposes that became a lifestyle that was part of the road to addiction(Quinn, et al .,881). After
the second stage, she became dependent on the drugs that, for her to be able to solve her issues,
she had to use the substances. The last stage she got into is the full brown stage of addiction.
She was fully reliant on the drugs she was using, ending up taking even an overdose
resulting in her feeling that the doses she was taking in her third stage of addiction were not
enough. The fourth stage is where she was discovered and taken to the rehab, where she was first
admitted as an inpatient to help in her detoxification (Quinn, et al .,881). When Olive got
addicted to the substances she was abusing, her brain was affected as in her condition, she would
not concentrate on her studies. At the point of her addiction, her brain receptors became very
tired because of the less dopamine production. For Olive to recover from her addiction to
substance abuse, she must have followed all the five stages of recovery, which include; Pre-
contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.
Pre-contemplation recovery stage
Pre-contemplation stage of addiction recovery, every addict is never ready for treatment. This
could be the same case with Olivia. At this phase, Olivia was expected to defend her behavior,
blaming her parents for what had befallen her. If she did not decide to communicate, she could
have remained stuck at this stage because of the betrayal she had faced from her parents and
Noah, who was the boyfriend, (Sensen, et al.,607). At the first stage, she may have been in doubt
of her recovering.
Contemplation recovery stage
It is at this stage that Olivia might have shown that she needed the change together with her
mother, who was a drug addict. The stage may have pushed the mum also to think of changing
her habits by joining a rehab. The stage is critical because Olivia had to listen for her to reason.
At the second stage, a psychiatrist must have taken the precaution to avoid being blamed,
accused, or even judged for the choices the family and Olive would have chosen (Sensen, et
al.,607).
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Preparation Recovery Stage

At this stage, Olivia must have shown urgency sense for her to be sober as well as her mother
with a promise that she would quit substance-abusing without attending a center for treatment. It
is because of the family choice that the family opted to take that made her recovery very easy.
With the father committing to be spending most of his quality time with the family and the
mother going to the rehab was enough to make Olivia's recovery fast (Sensen, et al.,609).
Action Recovery stage
Olivia showed commitment by staying away from the substances she was abusing and resumed
her studies with no depression issues that would have made her go back to her olden ways. The
father and mother had committed to loving Olivia, giving her the care she needed from them.
The mother also committed to loving herself and decided to go to rehab after Olivia had gotten
out from the center in order for her to be a great mother to the daughter.
Maintenance recovery stage
This is the last stage for those recovering from an addiction. In this case, this is the last stage that
Olivia had to undergo for there to be an assurance that she would never abuse substances again.
Olivia's parents had to enroll Olivia into support groups and the mother to avoid them from
abusing substances again, which might harm their health, leading to worse complications than
the one they were recovering from (Sensen, et al.,610). At this stage, Olivia's parents had to
come up with activities that they could perform together as a family to help them stay united and
avoid any further health complications that would be caused by substance abuse. Aftercare by a
psychiatrist would be recommended for Olivia and her parents to constantly check whether they
could be having any chronic illnesses, which are most common with addicts who have recovered
from substance abuse. The aftercare provided by rehab facilities would be helpful to Olivia's
family to help them stay on the truck making sure that the lessons learned in rehab were being
put to place. 
Conclusion
Olivia's situation is just an example of how many teenagers end up abusing substances because
of one reason or another. Parents tend to be busy with their children's activities feeling neglected
with the current day and age. Drug addiction recovery is a process that needs commitment by the
victim, and the family has to offer a helping hand to their patient to help them recover fully. For
adolescents to get into abuse substances, the problem has its root from somewhere which for the
psychiatrist to help them get back on truck again, the victims must be willing to communicate.
With good communication, addicts of substances are able to be helped easily.
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