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It Read-through Chapter Three: “Six Phone Calls”

God. One hundred pages into IT and I only just got done with chapter three. This book can and will kill me. 

Warning for racism, suicide, blood, gore, abuse, assault, misogyny, and Bill Denbrough’s shitty opinions.

Intro Chapters One and Two

Silly me thought, oh, twenty-four chapters, one thousand one hundred and thirty-eight pages, that’s about fifty pages per chapter, I can crank that out no problem. I was reading full novels over the course of a day when I was in school. Easy peasy. 

Real whoppers like this chapter have me doubting myself. I’ll probably have days where I’ll break the chapter in half just so I’m not reading for three straight hours like I was tonight. 

Anyways, on to the chapter itself. It’s really more like six chapters crammed into one, all introducing us to an individual Loser with the exception of Mike. 

Let me sum up my reaction to these intros with my own tweet, having just finished Bev’s introduction:

And like, I’ve seen the movies, I’ve read the fanworks, I know a lot of the lore. I even read past chapter three as a kid, I remember Bill’s intro so clearly now. I feel like I have my own form of amnesia, but the shitty memories I’m uncovering are of reading this book. So believe me when I say I knew going in that the Losers would be an amalgamation of mommy and daddy issues or just plain issues, anti-Semitism, misogyny, repression, trauma, long-buried PTSD, abuse…like, there’s a reason they’re Losers. 

But King feels like he needs to beat us over the head with this information. 

For example, let’s start with Stanley. Good old Stanley. Hey, did you know Stan was Jewish??? A simple mention wouldn’t be enough though, let’s throw every anti-Semitic word at the wall, but it’s okay because it’s from the viewpoint of a Jewish character, his wife. The Jewish wife can call herself a kike all day long, why not, let’s just go ahead and do that. 

Like. Come on Stephen. My notes say “at SOME point this just feels fuckin’ racist, dude.” 

Stan himself is lovely. We get to see him from Patty’s point of view (and, point of order, I just realized that all of the Losers are introduced from the viewpoint of another character, with the exception of Richie and Eddie), and Stan is a level-headed, smart, steady man. He seems to be “preternaturally confident” about his life choices, whether that’s choosing where Patty should apply to for work or starting his own accounting firm, and he always seems to find success. 

Stan also finds out about Bill and his books, but before the telephone call from Mike, before the Derry memories are supposed to rush in. Stan is reading Bill’s new book when he gets the call in fact. 

He also makes an oblique reference to the Turtle around Patty, “the Turtle couldn’t help us”, and then seems to shake it off without going into it with her. 

So. Either Stan remembered more than he let on, or something happened that made him aware. More aware than the rest of the Losers. Like, the Losers all seem to find wild success, supernatural success really, but to them it all seems to happen suddenly, at random. Not so with Stan. When Patty and Stan try to have children but can’t conceive, Stan says he knows the problem lies with him, he just doesn’t know why exactly. He then goes on to say that he’s in the eye of some storm, the calm between something terrible in his past and something terrible in his future. 

Of course we soon learn what terrible something is lurking in Stan’s future. One evening he gets a call from Mike Hanlon, telling him to come back to Derry. Stan answers the call, responds to Mike’s questions, then tells Patty he’s going to take a bath. She ends up watching TV a little too long, then realizes something is Off. She finds him locked in the bathroom with slit wrists and the word IT written in his own blood on the wall. 

The neighbors call the cops she screams so loud. 

We then move from Stan to Richie, whose name I have never been more happy to see in my whole life. Finally, finally, one of my favorite characters. Richie answers Mike’s phone call with nary a hiccup. He puts on a Voice to answer, not something silly but a sort of adult “everything’s going to be okay” Voice. He then arranges things with his travel agent and somewhere along the way he has to go back to his normal voice. “Now he had to go back to being himself, and that was hard–it got harder to do that every year.” Richie is building walls around parts of himself with his Voices, avoiding the real him. 

He does a couple of voices for the travel agent, she laughs hysterically, and he arranges his trip to Derry, and calls out of work. After it’s all taken care of, the memories start to rush back, the people, and he thinks of Georgie, with his arm ripped off, and then and only then does Richie vomit. He makes it to the toilet at least, but he empties himself entirely. He then removes his contacts. 

A rather short intro, but to me a nice reprieve. 

Ben’s intro is a lot better than I remember it being. I think I conflated it with his intro in the miniseries, where he brings home a girl and tells her about him being fat before they have sex. Here, not a whisper of that. There’s actually a bit where a woman asks Ben’s local bartender if Mister Hanscom is gay. “Mister Hanscom ain’t no sissy.” Cool. Thanks, Stephen. 

Basically, Ben haunts this one tiny bar in Nebraska in this tiny podunk “town”, where he gets to know the bartender, a Ricky Lee, very well over the years. He comes every Friday and Saturday night, no matter where he is. When he’s working on the BBC Communications Tower in London he still flies back home every Saturday to get his drinks. He never takes anyone home from the bar and he consistently tips well. The bartender enjoys his company. 

The night of the phone call, we see Ben head into the bar and there’s a terrible desolation hung over him. He tells Ricky there’s been bad news from home, and Ricky is sympathetic. He goes into some of the memories, of Bowers carving the H into his stomach, and shows Ricky the scar. He then orders a STEIN of whiskey, which Ricky, somewhat foolishly, gives to him, on the house. 

Ben then, mentioning an anecdote about the natives in Peru, snorts straight lemon juice and then downs the whiskey like beer. He then gives Ricky Lee three pure silver dollars that his father gave to him before he died. He makes mention of a fourth one that he gave to Bill…and a mysterious reference that Bill or Bev somehow used that silver dollar to save his life at some point. Meanwhile, Ricky is horrified. He keeps thinking of a bar patron that once hung himself after coming to the bar, and how Ben has the same look about him. He’s suddenly struck that Ben is dead, a dead man walking. 

But Ben walks out of the bar all the same, drives off, even while the waitress scolds Ricky for letting Ben drive, saying “he’ll kill himself”. And Ricky, who had thought the same thing not five minutes before says no he won’t. 

It’s a common through-line, the Losers being dead men (and woman) walking, everyone comments how scared they seem to be, how overwhelmed by fear, with the exception of Richie, who has no one with him, but Richie notes that he’s a dead man walking all the same. 

We move on to Eddie. In my notebook I wrote “EDDIE!!!” and immediately felt a renewed zeal to read. 

Eddie is introduced not by physical description but by what we find in his medicine cabinet. I couldn’t tell you the purpose of half of the items listed, a lot of them no longer exist, and as much as I’ve been busting out google for this book I wasn’t keen on looking up an entire pharmacy. I did note that one, there’s a lot of products for, as the book puts it, “moving the mail” (I wrote down “get the feeling Eds gets constipated a lot, needs more fiber in his diet”), and then I noted that Eddie also has some serious painkillers, along with some uppers and serious downers. You know a book was written in the eighties when “Quaaludes” gets name-dropped. 

I also wrote “Eddie is balding :C”, just so you know where my priorities lie. 

Of course we wouldn’t be able to talk about Eddie without mentioning Myra. Right after Eddie basically empties his medicine cabinet into his bag, Myra comes thundering up the stairs. Oh yeah, chalk down some good ol’ fatphobia from King. Literally every shitty character is fat in this book. 

Myra gets a bit of an interjection, though Eddie remains the central viewpoint for most of the chapter, and in her interjection she notes that she somewhat wants to trap Eddie (in the closet, jesus, very subtle) until “this madness had passed”. 

Eddie presses Myra into taking over for him in his driving business, and she hasn’t driven in years so she’s terrified, all while half trapped in his memories. He remembers his mom laying into his gym teacher for making Eddie take Phys. Ed. with asthma, but the teacher notes there’s nothing physically wrong with him. All the same, Eddie goes for his aspirator, takes a deep puff of it. 

He reflects that he knows how fucked up his marriage is, he knows he married his mother. Before he’d taken the plunge he’d placed a photo of Myra on the mantle next to his mother. He noted then that the two of them could be sisters. But he’d been weak and fallen into old habits. The jabs he could take, the jokes about Jack Sprat from his coworkers, but he really does seem ashamed of himself for taking the easier path, the one familiar to him. 

He truly cares for Myra if nothing else. He doesn’t want to hurt her in any way. Even semi-harsh words make him feel guilty and remorseful. He contemplates telling her everything, but it would only make her anxiety and distress worse. 

Also, two things of note: Eddie mentions that Myra “was really very sweet and had had even less experience with men than he’d had with women.” 👀 This and his pet-name for her, that makes her giggle to hear it, is “Marty.” I feel like this is far more telling of Eddie than the “marrying his mother” thing. He has affection for this woman, to be sure, but far more because she is safe, she doesn’t know much about men, she reminds him of familiar routines, she keeps him medicated and stable. He affectionately calls her a man’s name. 

And she? She wants to lock him in a closet to keep him safe and docile to her. 

As he leaves he briefly sees her transform (only for him, only mentally) into someone older, his mother back from the grave, “old and fat and crazy”, and a memory of his mother terrifying him in a shoe shop comes to mind. He shakes it off and asks her for a kiss, while saying to himself “if we were in water she’d drown us both.”

And then he flees to his taxi, on his way to the station and Derry. 

The next introduction is terrible. It made me so mad to read, I remember it disgusting me when I was kid, but it just infuriates me now. 

King’s only female protagonist, the only female in the Losers Club, Bev Marsh, is a walking punching bag. 

This part is told from the viewpoint of Tom Rogan, Bev’s husband, and he talks about how he got her under his thumb, how he could sense her vulnerability. And one, it reads like how every man assumes female abuse victims work, secretly wanting the abuse and having the choice to leave at any time but unable to, and two, it is some highly toxic misogynistic shit. And obviously it’s told from the viewpoint of a highly misogynistic character, an abuser through and through (who, by the way, is also fat, so there’s that fatphobia popping up again). 

But Tom knows that in times of extreme stress Bev is able to find her inner strength and push through. She becomes manic to do what she needs to do, and in those times Tom knows that his abuse wouldn’t be able to touch her. 

I filled up a quarter of a page with the words “FUCK TOM >:C” just so you know where my head was at as I read about him “teaching Bev a lesson” and beating her until she “learned”. He even knows that when he beats her she regresses back to being a child. A *gag* sexy child at that. His disgusting words, not mine. 

Of course Tom has parental issues of his own, of course! Match made in heaven. His mom beat him with a belt and he intends to do the same to Bev, put her in her place, give her a “whuppin’” as it’s phrased in the book. But Bev isn’t having any of that tonight. As Tom attempts to beat her for smoking and packing and daring to defy him, she fights back. She throws glass bottles at him and, as he gets more crazed, eventually tips the vanity on him. That isn’t even close to enough to keep him down though, so she snags the belt and whips him, first across the face, and then across the balls. Then and only then does he go down. 

She flees, shoeless and penniless into the night, and laughs once she realizes she’s out and probably out for good. My notes read “Tom can and will rot in hell.” 

Then my notes segue smoothly into “oh boy it’s Bill :|” and honestly, that could be the mood for the whole segment on Bill. 

Bill…Bill is so obviously Stephen King. Any time there’s a writer in a Stephen King novel you can bet that the writer is a stand-in for Stephen King. This is why it was amusing to me to have his cameo in It: Chapter Two roast Bill, his self-insert. I also should note that in the last chapter Adrian is noted to have been working on a long-languishing novel, and being in Derry inspired him, and just reading that made me groan. Not because I have anything against writers, lord knows, but because I know King included that detail to tie Adrian to himself and to Bill. I know it will come up later. I know King has to make every character him before he can empathize with them. 

Anyways, Bill gets the call from Mike all the way in England, where he’s staying in a cottage with his wife Audra. Beautiful, statuesque, red-haired Audra. “Why can’t you be the woman I want you to be” indeed. Not a line Bill says in the book by the way. At least not yet. 

Audra wants to know why Bill is shaking and why he pours himself a stiff drink before breakfast, so Bill begins filling her in on the details. And as he does we’re treated to memories of Bill in college, in his creative writing class. 

Now. Here is where I begin to lose patience with Bill and with King. King is clearly writing from experience. I know he had issues with his own college creative writing class. 

Basically, the class is pretentious, concerned with inserting political opinions into everything they write, going on about how war is sold by sexist capitalists and so on and you can just TELL that King is projecting hard. Bill’s works, fun sci-fi stories and mysteries, are given fairly low scores by the professor.

Then one day in class, during a period when another student is talking about her work, filled to the brim with socio-political commentary, Bill stands up and basically says that he doesn’t get what they’re talking about and “can’t you guys just let a story be a story?”

Which like, dude, okay, I get it on some level, this shit sounds pretentious as hell. But it’s COLLEGE. If you can’t get a chance to be pretentious in college then when else can you be? Also, you know for a fact that King is twisting this story to make himself look favorable, because it is clearly a story from his own past. So obviously the students have to be talking about buzzwords that have no meaning, instead of, oh I don’t know, expressing their political beliefs? Everything has politics in it dude! Even your shitty ass story reflects the political landscape of America in the eighties for fuck’s sake!! It, the novel, would not be what it is if it weren’t mired in politics. It has a lot to say about race, gender, and class, and if the message is muddled and directionless it’s only because the author, Mister King, didn’t put any thought into what he was trying to say, but rather wrote a story that was meant to shock. 

Anyways, Bill says the story thing, and it’s just the sort of malarky you would expect to see on the front page of r/braincels, with the top comment being “and then everyone clapped” because it is ridiculous. The teacher reprimands Bill, and Bill slinks out of class.

But OH BOY, Bill shows him! Because he writes his first horror story shortly after, and the story damn near pours out of him, and he brings it to class. The professor gives it an F and calls it pure pulp. 

Bill sells it for two hundred bucks to a shitty magazine, drops the class, and with the drop out note, well. I’ll let King take over here:

“Bill Denbrough staples the drop card to the assistant fiction editor’s congratulatory note and tacks both to the bulletin board on the creative-writing instructor’s door. In the corner of the bulletin board he sees an anti-war cartoon. And suddenly, as if moving of its own accord, his fingers pluck his pen from his breast pocket and across the cartoon he writes this: If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable, I’m going to kill myself, because I won’t know what else to do. You see, politics always change. Stories never do.”

“Bill Denbrough,” my notes read, “kill yourself.” 

The rest of the section continues with Bill falling into the lap of success with his stories, meeting Audra while working on a screen adaptation of his novel, the shoot going unnaturally well according to Audra, and his following years of success. He slowly fills Audra in on the blanks. His brother’s murder. His scars, from the Losers’ vow, which have suddenly reappeared on his hand after the phone call. How Stan was the one that cut their hands, before turning the glass on himself. How Stan at first mimes slashing his wrists, as a supposed goof, but Bill almost stops him all the same. 

He then realizes he can’t tell Audra everything about what went down in Derry, but makes her promise not to come with him, to stay away from Derry. His stutter, which has slowly crept back in over the course of the conversation, scares her into promising

““And when do I see you again?” she asked softly. He put an arm around her and held her tightly, but he never answered her question.”

With that, thus ends chapter three. 

This chapter took it out of me. It was all so familiar and yet all so new and horrible at the same time. I honestly can’t say I’m having a good time, but I’m certainly interested in what I’m reading. It’s like reading about a parasitic wasp, what it does to the host. It’s gruesome and disgusting, but you keep reading because you want to see the end result. But the fun’s only just beginning.

Catch you all tomorrow, bye for now. 

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Drug Rehabilitation And Detoxification Treatments

The approaches of drug detoxifying are:

A.) Cold-turkey Detoxification

This means ceasing all drug usage with medical guidance to help during an emergency. Cold-- turkey implies no pharmacological aid and customers experience the full brunt of withdrawal symptoms as long they last. Some dugs may possibly be intense and last for a couple of weeks or longer while others are not physically difficult to stop.

B.) Short-term Medicated Detox

Individuals who opt for medical detox stop taking all substances but have a short-time medication strategy when they begin experiencing withdrawal symptoms. Individuals suffering from insomnia can be proposed a non-addictive sleep medication while those experiencing muscle aches can be given pain relievers.

C.) Extensive Treated Detox

Treatment method for opioid drugs for example, heroine have an option of long-term treatment. Individuals can use methadone or the buprenorphine/naloxone drug combination to treat the brunt effects of withdrawal symptoms. With time, the dosage of the medications is brought down until the customer is drug free.

Anything detoxification path is gone for, it must be completed under the supervision of a medical pro.

At-home Detox

There are a lot of people who prefer at-home purification. It is achievable but not wise because it may be unsafe and may not always work. Professional detoxification is the safest and most helpful way to wane sufferers off drug abuse, know more here https://lighthousetreatment.com/7-ways-to-alleviate-anxiety-without-drugs/.

Drug Detox Kits

Today, there are drug detox kits available for a large range of prices. They are not a whole treatment solution.

Detox Duration

Drug detoxification takes provided withdrawal symptoms last and also for how long it deems a customer to attain physical and mental stability. A detox also helps to prepare mentally and physically for the work in therapy and counselling Antidepressants and antipsychotics may be prescribed for patience with co-occurring issues for example, depression.

Detox is not a complete treatment for addiction. Pre-existing conditions which may be a predetermining factor of substance abuse should be addressed in therapy once the withdrawal symptoms have passed and drug toxins are no more in the body.

2.) Behavioral Counselling

Behavioral therapies help with modifying clients' perspectives towards drug addiction. There are effective therapies for treating drug addictions after detoxification.

a.) Therapeutic groups

These are highly structured plans where patience remain in the rehab center for 6 to One Year. As representatives of change, the staff and other recouping addicts influence individual's perspectives and behaviors.

b.) Multidimensional family treatments

This was developed for to cater for both teenagers with drug abuse issues and their families. It is produced to improve the overall family performing.

c.) Intellectual behavioral therapy

It helps clients recognize, avoid and handle predicaments where they are probable to use drugs.

d.) Inspirational questioning

It makes easily the most out of people's passion to change their behavior

e.) Motivational rewards

It utilizes favorable reinforcements to encourage abstinence from substances.

f.) Personal therapy

Personal therapy is where the real underlying issues are managed on a personal basis.

g.) Life talents training class

These classes teach clients ways to function and stay on par with responsibilities without feeling overwhelmed. This makes them feel more responsible and unlikely to depend on drugs or alcohol.

3.) Medication

Medication and medical devices could be used in the following ways to handle problems connected with drug addiction:

Withdrawal

Prescriptions help in suppressing withdrawal conditions during detoxification. Detoxification is not a treatment option on its own but just the initial step of the process. Without further treatment after detoxification, individuals are prone to resume their drug use, another source https://americanaddictioncenters.org/withdrawal-timelines-treatments/.

Relapse Prevention

Medications can possibly be used to re-establish normal brain function and to decrease drug cravings. There are available opioid medications for drugs (heroin, painkiller, prescriptions), tobacco and alcohol addictions. Medical research is being undertaken to develop medications that can treat stimulant drugs (cocaine, methamphetamine). For people who use over one drug they will need treatment for all those substances.

Opioids

These drugs act on the same pinpoints in the brain as heroin and morphine. It should be used in detoxified clients only. All medications help patients reduce drug securing and related unlawful behavior.

A study found that a combination of buprenorphine, naloxone and an extended formulation of naltrexone is effective in treating opioid addiction. Treating clients with naloxone requires full detoxification which means that treatment must first be initiated by another medication but can be followed up by a the buprenorphine/naloxone combination. The stringent restrictions of methadone allow it to only be used in the presence of a medical professional.

Methadone alleviates withdrawal symptoms, has a longer half-life and does not elicit euphoria effects. Methadone is the most commonly used medication for opioid treatment.

Tobacco

Therapies for nicotine replacements can be found in several forms including the patch, spray gum or lozenges. They are available retail. There are also two authorized medications for nicotine treatment that include bupropion and varenicline. Despite their different working methods, they are both effective in preventing relapses in people aiming to quit. These medications are more efficient when combined with behavior modification.

Alcohol

There are three medications that have been authorized for treating alcohol addiction while another is still undergoing clinical trials but shows great promise. It is highly effective in many customers but genetic differences influence how it works in different people. It is also not safe for sufferers with liver damage.

We have acamprosate. This medication may reduce symptoms of durable withdrawal like insomnia, anxiety and dysphoria. It is more effective in people with severe addictions. Acamprosate has negative effects kike muscle weakness, headaches, nausea and dizziness. Moreover, it can not be taken by sufferers with kidney problems.

We have disulfiram. This medication interferes with the breakdown of alcohol. Disulfiram works by eliciting negative effects when individual take alcohol. When the sufferer takes alcohol, acetaldehyde increases in the body causing unpleasant reactions including nausea and irregular heartbeat. Taking disulfiram could be a problem but it is also useful for individuals who are highly motivated to quit drinking. Disulfiram should not be used by patients with liver damage.

4.) Co-occurring Conditions

Medications are available to treat possible mental health conditions such as depression or anxiety which may be affecting a client's addictive condition. Antidepressants or antipsychotics could be used to treat such mental health conditions.

5.) Aftercare

This is a collaborative system established by each sufferer and staff to increase the chances of triumph after formal treatment has ended. The systems meet the individual needs of each customer. It may include self-0help meetings, private therapy or vocational oriented options. The program should be consistently be assessed and adjusted when needed.

Many aftercare plans experience patient drop rates of about 50% because of limiting factors. For effective aftercare, the length of a customer's participation is very important. Customers should choose aftercare solutions that are accredited in order to obtain quality help.

What are the benefits of a drug rehab program?

They offer psychiatric care and treat mental illness

They have individualized treatment programs

They offer continuous medical interventions to address problematic withdrawal symptoms when acquiring treatment

They offer aftercare planning

They have opportunities for individual therapy

They offer group counselling to create assistance systems

They offer drug education classes to teach sufferers the effects of drugs on the mind and body

They offer life skill classes designed to help the recovering addict become self-sufficient after completing treatment.

Efficient treatment should include both medical and mental health options. Community or family based recovery aid systems are also necessary for follow-up care. Today, there are mobile applications that may possibly be used to treat substance use disorders. The FDA validated reset application is planned for use in outpatient care to treat alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and stimulant substance use disorders.

For addict offenders, more than just treating the addiction, drug treatment should include development of specific cognitive skills to assist the offenders adjust attitudes regarding drug abuse. Such skills include those related to thinking, understanding, learning and remembering. Treatment planning should include tailored assistance and transition to community-based treatment after release.

Drug addiction is treatable. Governments should establish more recovery centers to help deal with the drug addiction menace that has deprived the society of very successful labor, see more https://lighthousetreatment.com/orange-county-detox/.