The story Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction was a painful and heartfelt depiction of a broken family and the destruction of a boy, Nic Sheff, who encountered a fight with a drug addiction. This autobiography was written by his father David Sheff, who has a complicated life of his own that played a part in his son’s development of a love hate relationship with methamphetamine. After David began the process of divorce with his wife Vicki, the custody battle took an emotional toll on Nic, starting childhood therapy at the age of six years old. Some teachers reported him feeling somewhat depressed and looking tired throughout the school day. A turning point was when Nic reached the eighth grade and his dad discovered he was smoked marijuana.
It was the most challenging part of reading this book with David’s sense of hopelessness and that he kept blaming his sons addiction on his lack of action and custody battles he dealt with as a child. Although David had used the same drugs in his high school and college years, including methamphetamine, David was …show more content…
Whilst reading Beautiful Boy, I was intrigued to list all warning signs, both small and large, that would end up leading Nic to a dark place. Hearing David have to admit that he knew the point in which he started to loose his son and come to terms with it was hard to comprehend. Also I became frustrated when David thought a way to bond and have his son accept him was to smoke a joint with him after continuously criticizing himself for leading Nic to drugs. Once high school graduation has passed, mood and behavior swings were added to my list of trigger signs. The strangely comforting aspect to this way that David and Karen were not clueless to his peculiar actions and knew that some kind of drug was driving Nic’s outburst
It was the most challenging part of reading this book with David’s sense of hopelessness and that he kept blaming his sons addiction on his lack of action and custody battles he dealt with as a child. Although David had used the same drugs in his high school and college years, including methamphetamine, David was …show more content…
Whilst reading Beautiful Boy, I was intrigued to list all warning signs, both small and large, that would end up leading Nic to a dark place. Hearing David have to admit that he knew the point in which he started to loose his son and come to terms with it was hard to comprehend. Also I became frustrated when David thought a way to bond and have his son accept him was to smoke a joint with him after continuously criticizing himself for leading Nic to drugs. Once high school graduation has passed, mood and behavior swings were added to my list of trigger signs. The strangely comforting aspect to this way that David and Karen were not clueless to his peculiar actions and knew that some kind of drug was driving Nic’s outburst