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A Registered Nurse Is Disturbed About Her Frightful Depression And Makes Up Her Mind To Quit Drinking
For the past twenty-two years Carolyn has been a nurse practitioner at a small Veteran's hospital. As a RN, she obviously knew what to tell her patients concerning their health issues but in her personal life, nevertheless, she undeniably didn't practice what she preached. As an example, she commonly drank in a careless manner, she failed to exercise, she smoked roughly two packs of cigarettes on a daily basis, and she was approximately forty-five pounds overweight.
One night on her way to her job, Carolyn got into an automobile accident. Due to the fact that the accident was her fault and since her speech was garbled when she spoke, the arresting officer administered a breathalyzer test. In concurrence with standard police operating procedures, when a person is involved in a vehicle accident and fails to pass a sobriety test, the individual has to spend at least seven hours in the municipal jail.
Actually, Carolyn should have known better than to drive after she was drinking because she recently participated in an alcohol abuse awareness class at the hospital that centered on statistics, issues, and information about long term alcohol effects such as the following: alcohol poisoning, DUIs, binge drinking, and the key differences between alcohol dependency and alcohol abuse.
It almost goes without saying that Carolyn experienced quite a bit of shame about her car accident. Moreover, she was feeling quite a bit of shame about the fact that the accident was her fault. And possibly worst of all she was quite embarrassed about the fact that she was driving after she consumed a few drinks. As Carolyn wondered about her situation, then again, she knew how fortunate she was because down the road her drinking problems could have been a lot worse due to the long term effects of alcohol.
In any case, Carolyn's humiliation about her automobile accident helped persuade her to reevaluate her life and make some significant and positive modifications. First, she was going to quit drinking in an excessive and irresponsible manner. This would clearly help her stay away from long term alcohol abuse. Second, she was going to stop smoking. Third, she was going to go on a strict diet. And fourth, she was going to start exercising.
As disconcerted and depressed as Carolyn was about the total automobile accident situation, she used this dreadful experience as a catalyst for positive change. Moreover, she used her painful experience as a real source of revelation that she had been overlooking her own health while she openly told her patients how to live a more healthy life. After all had been said and done, she finally saw the hypocrisy in her behavior and finally determined that she would live her life as a constructive source of encouragement for the patients at the hospital.
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