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A Registered Nurse Is Anxious About Her Disabling Depression And Makes Up Her Mind To Abstain From Drinking


For the past sixteen years Carolyn has been a RN at a large Catholic hospital. As a professional nurse, she clearly knew what to tell her patients about their health difficulties but in her off-duty life, nevertheless, she undeniably didn't practice what she taught. For example, she typically drank in a hazardous and abusive manner, she infrequently exercised, she smoked almost two packs of cigarettes on an everyday basis, and she was nearly forty-one pounds overweight.

One day on her way to the hospital, Carolyn got into a vehicle accident. Since the accident was her fault and because her speech was garbled when she spoke, the arresting policeman gave her a breathalyzer test a breathalyzer test. In accord with standard law enforcement policy, when a person becomes involved in a vehicle accident and fails to pass a breathalyzer test, the individual has to spend at least eight hours in the municipal jail.

In fact, Carolyn should have known better than to drive after she was drinking because she recently went to an alcohol abuse awareness class at the hospital that centered on issues, statistics, and information about long term alcohol effects such as the following: binge drinking, alcohol poisoning, DUIs, and the fundamental differences between alcohol addiction and alcohol abuse.

It almost goes without saying that Carolyn was feeling a lot of shame about her automobile accident. Furthermore, she felt disgraced about the fact that the accident was her fault. And conceivably worst of all she experienced quite a bit of shame about the fact that she was driving after she had a few drinks. As Carolyn mulled over this event, then again, she understood 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.

At any rate, Carolyn's disgrace about her car accident helped persuade her to go over her life and make some substantial and positive changes. First, she was going to refrain from drinking in an excessive and abusive manner. This would obviously help her steer clear of long term alcohol abuse. Second, she was going to stop smoking. Third, she was going to go on a weight-loss diet. And fourth, she was going to start exercising.

As sad and depressed as Carolyn was about the total vehicle accident condition, she used this agonizing experience as a trigger for positive change. Not only this but, she used her dreadful experience as a wake up call that she had been failing to address her own health while she professionally told her patients how to live in a more healthy manner. At the end of the day, she eventually saw the fraudulence in her actions and came to a decision that she would live her life as a positive source of hope for her patients.

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