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For the past nineteen years Natalie has been a RN at a rural hospital. As a licensed practical nurse, she obviously knew what to tell her patients when it came to their health concerns but in her off-duty life, nevertheless, she undeniably didn’t practice what she preached. As an example, she typically drank in a hazardous and abusive manner, she infrequently exercised, she smoked at least a pack of cigarettes on a daily basis, and she was roughly twenty-two pounds overweight.

Natalie Gets Into A Vehicle Accident, Fails An Alcohol Test, and Goes to The County Jail

One night on her way to the hospital, Natalie got into a traffic accident. Since the accident was her fault and since her speech was garbled when she spoke, the arresting police officer had her take a breathalyzer test. As per standard police operating procedures, when a person becomes involved in a vehicle accident and fails a breathalyzer test, the individual has to spend at least five hours in the community jail.

In fact, Natalie should have known better than to drive after she was drinking because she recently went to an “alcohol awareness” class at the hospital that focused on statistics, issues, and information about alcohol facts such as the following: DUIs, binge drinking, alcohol poisoning, and the main differences between alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction.

Natalie is Embarrassed About Her Car Accident

It almost goes without saying that Natalie felt embarrassed about her vehicle accident. Furthermore, she was embarrassed about the fact that the accident was her fault. And conceivably worst of all, she was feeling quite a bit of shame about the fact that she was driving after she had been drinking. As Natalie contemplated her circumstance, however, she saw that it could have been worse because at her place of employment, when a blood alcohol test is given and failed, the person has to go to compulsory alcohol rehabilitation and is placed on non-pay status. This was simply one of the alcohol facts that was a reality at work and not much could change this fact.

Natalie’s Shame About Her Vehicle Accident Forces Her To Reexamine Her Life and Make Some Substantial and Healthy Modifications

In any event, Natalie’s shame about her automobile accident helped persuade her to reconsider her life and make some relevant and healthy changes. First, she was going to refrain from drinking in a hazardous and excessive manner. Second, she was going to quit smoking. Third, she was going to lose some weight. And fourth, she was going to begin exercising.

As troubled as Natalie was about the entire automobile accident situation, she used this agonizing experience as a trigger for positive change. Not only this but, she used her awful experience as a real source of revelation that she had been failing to address her own health while she openly told her patients how to live in a more healthy manner. At last, she eventually saw the insincerity in her behavior and decided that she would live her life as a constructive source of hope for the patients at the hospital.

Augie and Merissa have been dating for eight-and-a-half years. They met while taking the same zoology class at a relatively large, country, liberal arts college located in the Southern part of the United States. While they were just good buddies at first, they at long last started to date when they were in their second year of college.

Due to the fact both of them came from very traditional backgrounds, neither one of them drank much beyond the experimental stage when they first started to date. As the time went by, then again, they began to go to more keg parties, football bashes, sorority and fraternity parties, and happy hours. As a consequence, they little by little began to drink more as time passed by.

Their Social Life Commonly Consisted of Going to Parties With Their Friends, Going to Restaurants Three or Four Nights Per Week, Going to Professional Sporting Events, Going to Happy Hour With Their Friends, and Going With Their Friends to the Local Tavern on the Weekends

After they graduated from college, they both landed jobs in a small city that was approximately fifty-five miles from their undergraduate college. Then they eventually made up their mind to move in with each other.

Since they were far removed from the college drinking scene, nevertheless, their social life regularly consisted of going to restaurants three or four nights per week, going to happy hour with their friends, going to parties with their friends, going to professional sporting events, and going to the local pub with their buddies on the weekends. Stated another way, Augie and Merissa began drinking in an irresponsible and abusive manner.

Now that they were living with each other and beginning to get more committed to their relationship, then again, they started to think about becoming more responsible, having children, getting married, and buying a house.

With any important transformation in an individual’s life there is regularly a trigger the specific alteration in question. For Augie and Merissa the thought of having children and buying a new house was this “mechanism of change.” Stated more explicitly, for the first time in their lives, Merissa and Augie started to critically review their irresponsible and hazardous drinking and the long term alcohol effects on their health.

How Would Their Heavy and Hazardous Drinking Affect Their Mental Health, Their Finances, Their Relationship With One Another, Their Ability to Have Children, and Their Relationship With Their Parents?

Would their hazardous and heavy drinking unfavorably affect their ability to have children? How would they be able to continue spending so much money on drinking if they were to start saving for a new house? How mature would they be if they had children and continued to drink in an irresponsible and abusive manner? How would they be able to face their parents and tell them about their long term dreams, aspirations, and hopes while they still drank in an abusive and hazardous manner while having fun as they did when they were in college? What would their irresponsible and hazardous drinking do to their relationship? How would their hazardous and abusive drinking affect their mental health?

From a different line of reasoning, although neither one of them ever suffered from alcohol poisoning, received a DUI, or experienced alcohol withdrawal symptoms, they realized that their hazardous and heavy drinking was becoming an issue that they could not overlook any longer.

After Giving Their Circumstances Some Serious Thought, Augie and Merissa Arrived at the Conclusion That Their Dreams, Hopes, and Aspirations Would not be Completed if They Continued Their Excessive and Irresponsible Drinking

All of these inquiries undoubtedly resulted in the same conclusion: Augie and Merissa needed to grasp the fact that they couldn’t continue their hazardous drinking if their aspirations, hopes, and dreams were to be realized.

Once they arrived at this conclusion, they advised their drinking buddies about their marital plans, about their goal of buying or building a new house, and about their plans to start a family. They also told their drinking pals that they still wanted to associate with them but that they would be drinking in strict moderation from this moment forward so that they could start realizing their future aspirations, dreams, and goals.

Surprisingly, all of their friends expressed relief because they too had been contemplating their lives and concluded that their life-styles were much too often focused on drinking. They also realized that they would have to change notably if they were to become more accountable and display more thoughtfulness for their health, their careers, and for their aspirations in the next fifteen or twenty years.

After their candid chat with their buddies about their hopes, plans, and dreams, Augie and Merissa actually started to have more meaningful relationships with all of their buddies. The main reason for this was the fact that all of them had the same state of mind regarding their abusive drinking and their relatively short and long-term goals, plans, and aspirations.

Our internal conversations can easily color our thinking and affect our behaviors in many different ways. Unconsciously, the conversations many of us have with ourselves can be negative and self-defeating. Since our mind is within our control, why not feed it with positive thoughts?

While thinking positively easy enough but for it to really work, it has to start from the very essence and core of your mind and self. A surefire method of attacking negativity at its core is by practicing positive self-affirmations. The power of positive affirmations lie in reconditioning your brain to eliminate negative self-talk and drastically change how you think and feel of just about ANY situation.

Here are 5 reasons why you should make positive self-affirmations a priority for personal growth today.

1. Positivity breeds success. And it works both ways since successful people tend to think positively. Research shows that optimists have a higher overall well-being and are generally more productive, more often promoted and earn more than pessimists. Why? The science behind it says that positive thinkers set higher goals and are more motivated to persist at them and achieve these goals. Moreover, positive self-affirmations help us strengthen our beliefs and empower us to reach our targets.

2. Positivity attracts good things. Positive people can attract other positive, powerful people and are always on the look for the next best thing. All these things typically translate to  opportunities for success and a readiness to take anything on when it comes. Others notice if your self-perception is one of success and as such, you will attract others like yourself.

3. Positivity improves health. Research has shown that our physical health is positively correlated with our mental health. Positive thinking has been correlated with a lower rates of depression and levels of distress, greater immunity, lowered risk of cardiovascular diseases, greater coping skills during times of duress and in direct relation to all that, an increased lifespan.

4. Positivity boosts your relationships. We're automatically drawn to people who are positive and feel good. This is because when you feel better about yourself, you’re more comfortable to be around. Aside from that, positive thinking increases your self-esteem and self-security, naturally making your relationships more rewarding.

5. Positivity boosts happiness. Here's the deal. Positive people typically have a greater capacity for love, joy and warmth. They are also usually more externally focused and are kinder and definitely more considerate to other people in their lives. Add that to success, good health and rewarding relationships – you’ve got higher general well-being.

Mahatma Ghandi once said:

Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words
Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors
Keep your habits positive because they become your values
Keep your values positive because they become your destiny.

What he said stresses on several things. Firstly, we have control over our thoughts, words, habits and values. Secondly, what you sow is what you’ll reap. Today, many people actively strive to cultivate and maintain positive thinking for their personal growth because they are aware of the multitude of benefits positive thinking has in store for them. As such, their results demonstrate themselves everyday in the form of achievement and general well-being. So put on that thinking cap and generate some positive affirmations for yourself today to enjoy the benefits they will bring to every aspect of your life.

Jennifer is a forty-one-year-old accounts receivable manager who has been ingesting alcohol quite abusively since she and her fiancée discontinued their relationship. In actual fact, for the past eight months she has been drinking very nearly a bottle of wine every night, and on the weekends she also has been drinking more than a few wine coolers all the way through the day. In a word, Jennifer has been drinking so hazardously and abusively that it’s amazing that she hasn’t suffered from alcohol poisoning.

After feeling unhappy because she was starting to close her eyes to her health, Jennifer at long last told herself that enough is enough, that it’s time to stop the self pity party, that it’s time to stop the hazardous and excessive drinking, and time to move on with her life. So the next Saturday morning at 10:00 AM, she made up her mind to quit drinking cold turkey.

When She Quit Drinking She Felt Dreadful, She Vomited Several Times, She Was Extremely Nervous and Moody, Her Head Was Throbbing, She Had Absolutely No Appetite, and She Started to Perspire Profusely

When Jennifer stopped drinking, she figured that she would most likely be tempted to sneak a few drinks, but she never guessed that she would feel so dreadful. More to the point, roughly an hour after she quit drinking, she started to sweat extensively, her head was pounding, she vomited a number of times, she was extremely moody and anxious, and she had utterly no appetite.

When she called her best buddy and told her that she had stopped drinking and that after a few hours she all of a sudden started to experience flu-like symptoms, Carrie, her best pal, told Jennifer to call her physician and discuss what was transpiring.

She Admits to Her Family Doctor That She Has Been Drinking In a Hazardous Manner, That She Just Tried to Stop Drinking, and That She is Suffering Through Extremely Painful Flu-Like Symptoms

So Jennifer called her doctor, informed him that she has been drinking in an irresponsible and hazardous manner for a number of months and that when she attempted to totally quit drinking earlier in the day, within a couple of hours she felt as if she had the most dreadful flu-like symptoms that she had ever gone through.

Her healthcare professional told her that she may be experiencing symptoms of alcohol withdrawal and that she should have a friend or neighbor drive her to the emergency room as soon as humanly possible.

As soon as Jennifer got off the phone, she got a friend to drive her to the emergency room. Interestingly, as sick as Jennifer was, all she could think about all the way to the hospital was whether or not she might be an alcoholic.

It seems that her healthcare professional had phoned ahead and informed the emergency room personnel to expect Jennifer because when she got to the hospital, she was met by two emergency room employees who immediately told her to lie down on the portable bed they had with them. After getting wheeled to the emergency room and undergoing two or three essential tests, it was validated that Jennifer was in fact experiencing alcohol withdrawal symptoms and was in need of alcohol detoxification.

An emergency room healthcare practitioner gave her some drugs to lessen the discomfort of her flu-like symptoms and also administered some medications to help eliminate the alcohol that was still in her circulation system.

An Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Physician Explains That She is Alcohol Dependent and Then Clearly Explains What Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms and Alcohol Dependency Stages Are

After a few hours, Jennifer was taken from the emergency room and transported to the recovery room. After she was in recovery for nearly an hour, Doctor Castro, a substance abuse and chemical dependency specialist, came to see her. He took quite a bit of time and clearly explained that Jennifer had gone through alcohol withdrawal symptoms when she stopped drinking due to the fact that she had become addicted to alcohol.

He then elucidated the fact that with heavy drinking on a daily basis, the drinker’s brain steadily gets acclimated to the alcohol in order to carry out tasks and operations in a “semi-normal” fashion. When the drinker then suddenly stops ingesting alcohol, as one would expect, the brain takes action by creating alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Moreover, her doctor also went over the various alcoholism stages that a person who is alcohol dependent typically suffers through as the disease progressively gets worse.

It is Determined that Jennifer is in the First Stage of Alcohol Dependency and She Obtains a Favorable Prognosis For a Full Recovery if She Gets the Alcohol Treatment She Requires

Fortunately for Jennifer, it was established that she was in the earliest stage of alcohol addiction and, consequently, she obtained a favorable projection for a complete recovery if she receives the alcohol dependency rehabilitation she requires.

Jennifer told the physician that she will do whatever it takes to get sober and to get back her health. She also stated that she has a very comprehensive hospitalization insurance policy that will almost certainly pay for most of the treatment costs. It was apparent that Jennifer was quite grateful about her optimistic prognosis and felt at ease knowing that she will be able to get the alcoholism treatment she requires so that she can start on the road to recovery.

Jennifer is a twenty-six-year-old title reviewer who has been consuming alcohol in an abusive manner since her live-in boyfriend and she broke up their relationship. In fact, for the past eleven months she has been drinking nearly two bottles of wine every night, and on the weekends she also has been drinking more than a few bottles of beer during the day. In a word, Jennifer has been drinking so excessively that it’s a miracle that she hasn’t suffered from alcohol poisoning.

After feeling depressed because she was starting to disregard her health, Jennifer at last told herself that she’s had enough, that it’s time to stop feeling sorry for herself, that it’s time to stop the abusive drinking, and time to get going with her life. So the following Saturday morning at 10:30 AM, she decided to quit drinking suddenly and completely without planning or preparation.

When She Attempted to Quit Drinking She Felt Horrific, Her Head Was Pounding, She Vomited a Number of Times, She Was Extremely Moody and Anxious, She Had Utterly No Appetite, and She Started to Sweat Extensively

When Jennifer stopped drinking, she reasoned that she would most likely be tempted to ”steal” a few drinks, but she never inferred that she would feel so dreadful. More directly, just about two-and-a-half hours after she quit drinking, she vomited several times, she had utterly no appetite, she started to perspire extensively, she was extremely stressed out and moody, and her head was pounding.

When she called her best buddy and informed her that she had stopped drinking and that after a couple of hours she suddenly started to have flu-like symptoms, Diane, her best pal, told Jennifer to call her doctor and clearly explain what was happening.

She Admits to Her Physician That She Has Been Drinking In an Irresponsible and Excessive Manner, That She Just Tried to Quit Drinking, and That She is Experiencing Awful Flu-Like Symptoms

So Jennifer called her healthcare practitioner, told him that she has been drinking in an abusive and excessive manner for more than a few months and that when she made an effort to completely stop drinking earlier in the day, within a couple of hours she felt as if she had the most awful flu-like symptoms that she had ever gone through.

Her physician informed her that she may be suffering from symptoms of alcohol withdrawal and that she should have a friend or family member drive her to the emergency room as soon as humanly possible.

As soon as Jennifer got off the phone, she got a relative to take her to the hospital. Interestingly, all the way to the hospital, as sick as Jennifer felt, the only thing she could think about was whether or not she was dependent on alcohol.

It seems that her healthcare professional had phoned ahead and informed the emergency room treatment team to expect Jennifer because when she got to the hospital, she was met by a paramedic and a nurse who immediately asked her to lie down on the portable bed they had with them. After getting transported to the emergency room and undergoing two or three necessary tests, it was verified that Jennifer was indeed going through alcohol withdrawal symptoms and was in need of alcohol detoxification.

An emergency room physician administered some meds to address her flu-like symptoms and also gave her some drugs to help eliminate the alcohol that was still in her body.

An Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Addiction Medical Practitioner Explains That She is Dependent on Alcohol and Then Discusses What Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms and Alcohol Addiction Stages Are

After two or three hours, Jennifer was removed from the ER and wheeled to the recovery room. After she was in recovery for approximately three hours, Doctor Verlich, an alcohol and drug abuse specialist, came to visit her. He took plenty of time and explained in a clear fashion that Jennifer had experienced alcohol withdrawal symptoms when she stopped drinking due to the fact that she had become dependent on alcohol.

He then discussed the fact that with repeated and excessive drinking, the individual’s brain slowly but surely becomes accustomed to the alcohol in order to carry out tasks and operations in a “routine” way. When the individual then all at once abstains from drinking alcohol, understandably, the brain responds by eliciting alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Furthermore, her medical practitioner also explained in a clear fashion the various alcoholism stages that an individual who is alcohol dependent commonly goes through as the disease gets worse over time.

It is Confirmed that Jennifer is in the First Stage of Alcohol Dependency and She Obtains a Good Diagnosis For a Total Recovery if She Gets the Alcohol Addiction Rehabilitation She Requires

Fortunately for Jennifer, it was confirmed that she was in the earliest stage of alcoholism and, consequently, she obtained a favorable forecast for a complete recovery if she gets the alcoholism rehab she needs.

Jennifer told the doctor that she will do whatever it takes to get sober and to recover her health. She also articulated that she has an exceptional hospitalization plan that will almost certainly pay for most, if not all, of the treatment costs. It was obvious that Jennifer was extremely pleased with her positive medical prognosis and felt free from worry knowing that she will be able to get the alcohol dependency therapy she requires so that she can start on the path to recovery.

Be Proactive

There are lots of dreamers in the world and dreams are a good thing, but if all you do is dream, you’ll never realize your goals.

Action is the precursor to success.

Becoming a success and accomplishing your dreams requires hard work – and action. Don’t let what others might say keep you from taking action. You are the person primarily responsible for realizing your dreams.

Thomas Edison is remembered as a great inventor, but before he invented the things we remember, he invented a lot of things that failed. Likewise, Abraham Lincoln failed many times in his life before he became one of our best Presidents. Before Babe Ruth set the record for home runs, he struck out many times.

We must take the initiative to make good things happen in our lives.

Babe Ruth got some free walks because he was such a fearsome batter, but we’re not in his league. If we want to realize our dreams, we’re going to have to take the initiative and do the work that is necessary.

Don’t Procrastinate!

How many people do you know who’s frequent answer is “I’ll do it later”, when all you ever see them actually do is sit around on the couch, or take long naps, or maybe, if they’re the active type – go off and play a round of golf.

But taking action to realize goals?

Oh, no, “I’ll get around to it.

Don’t waste your life sitting on the couch.

Your dreams are important to you, but the only way to realize them and accomplish success in life that you both want and deserve is to get up off the couch and take some action.

What could you do today to increase the chances that you’ll realize your dreams?

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Merissa and Augie have been dating for four-and-a-half years. They met while taking the same photo editing class at a relatively small, countryside, private liberal arts college located in the Southern part of the United States. While they were just good buddies at first, they finally began dating when they were in their first year of college.

Because both of them came from very strict backgrounds, neither one of them drank much beyond the testing stage when they first started to date. As the time proceeded, nevertheless, they started to go to more happy hours, football bashes, sorority and fraternity parties, and keg parties. Consequently, they over time began to drink more the longer they dated.

Their Social Life As a Rule Consisted of Going to Restaurants Three or Four Nights Per Week, Going to Professional Sporting Events, Going to Parties With Their Friends, Going to Happy Hour With Their Friends, and Going With Their Friends to the Local Pub on the Weekends

After they graduated, they both found employment in a relatively small city that was located about seventy miles from their undergraduate college. Then they eventually decided to move in with one another.

Given the fact that they were far removed from the college drinking scene, however, their social life regularly consisted of going to professional sporting events, going to happy hour with their friends, going to restaurants three or four nights per week, going to parties with their friends, and going to the local watering hole with their pals on the weekends. Simply put, Merissa and Augie began drinking quite abusively.

Now that they were living in the same apartment with one another and starting to get more serious about their relationship, nevertheless, they started to think about getting married, having children, becoming more responsible, and buying a house.

With any substantial alteration in an individual’s life there is typically something that elicits the particular modification in question. For Merissa and Augie the notion of buying a new house and having children was this “method of change.” In brief, for the first time in their lives, Augie and Merissa began to think about their irresponsible and abusive drinking and the long term effects of alcohol on their lives.

How Would Their Drinking Behavior Affect Their Relationship With One Another, Their Ability to Have Children, Their Finances, Their Relationship With Their Parents, and Their Mental Health?

Would their abusive and irresponsible drinking adversely affect their ability to have children? How would they be able to continue spending nearly all of their money on drinking if they were to start saving for a new house? How accountable would they be if they had children and continued to drink in an irresponsible and hazardous manner? How would they be able to face their parents and tell them about their long term dreams, aspirations, and goals while they still drank in an irresponsible and hazardous manner while having fun as they did when they were in college? What would their abusive and heavy drinking do to their relationship? How would their hazardous and excessive drinking affect their mental health?

From a different viewpoint, although neither one of them ever suffered from alcohol poisoning, received a DUI, or experienced alcohol withdrawals, they realized that their heavy drinking was becoming a thorny issue that they could not disregard any longer.

After Giving Their State of Affairs Considerable Deliberation, Augie and Merissa Finally Comprehended That Their Aspirations, Hopes, and Dreams Would not be Met if They Continued Their Hazardous and Irresponsible Drinking

All of these uncertainties undeniably led to the same conclusion: Augie and Merissa needed to grasp the fact that they couldn’t continue their abusive drinking if their goals, dreams, and aspirations were to be met.

Once they came to this conclusion, they notified their drinking friends about their marital plans, about their plans to start a family, and about their goal of buying or building a new house. They also told their drinking pals that they still wanted to hang around with them but that they would be drinking responsibly from this point forward so that they could start realizing their future goals, dreams, and aspirations.

Unexpectedly, all of their buddies expressed relief because they too had been taking into account the direction of their lives and concluded that their life-styles were much too often focused on drinking. They also believed that they would have to change substantially if they were to become more accountable and exhibit more forethought for their health, their plans, and for their careers in the next twenty or twenty-five years.

After their conversation with their pals about their plans, dreams, and hopes, Merissa and Augie in actual fact started to have more meaningful relationships with all of their buddies. The primary reason for this was the fact that all of them had the same mentality regarding their heavy and hazardous drinking and their short and long-term aspirations, plans, and goals.

Merissa and Augie have been in a dating relationship for seven-and-a-half years. They met while taking the same earth science class at a small, countryside, liberal arts college located in the Midwestern part of the United States. While they were in actual fact good friends at first, they at long last began dating when they were in their first year of college.

Because both of them came from very conventional backgrounds, neither one of them drank much beyond the testing stage when they first began dating. As the time proceeded, however, they began to go to more happy hours, football bashes, keg parties, and sorority and fraternity parties. As a result, they little by little began to drink increasingly more the longer they saw one another in a dating relationship.

Their Social Life Usually Consisted of Going to Parties With Their Friends, Going to Professional Sporting Events, Going to Restaurants Three or Four Nights Per Week, Going to Happy Hour With Their Friends, and Going With Their Friends to the Local Discotheque on the Weekends

After they graduated from college, they both got jobs in a small city located around seventy-five miles from their undergraduate college. Then they eventually made up their mind to move in with one another.

Given the fact that they were far removed from the college drinking scene, however, their social life typically consisted of going to happy hour with their friends, going to parties with their friends, going to restaurants three or four nights per week, going to professional sporting events, and going to the local club with their friends on the weekends. Stated more forcefully, Augie and Merissa began drinking in a hazardous and abusive manner.

Now that they were living with each other and starting to get more unwavering about their relationship, nevertheless, they started thinking about buying a house, getting married, becoming more responsible, and having children.

With any major transformation in an individual’s life there is commonly something that initiates the specific alteration in question. For Augie and Merissa the idea of buying a new house and having children was this “source of change.” Stated simply, for the first time in their lives, Augie and Merissa began to reflect on their excessive and irresponsible drinking and the long term alcohol effects on their lives.

How Would Their Excessive and Heavy Drinking Affect Their Relationship With Their Parents, Their Ability to Have Children, Their Mental Health, Their Finances, and Their Relationship With One Another?

Would their drinking behavior negatively affect their ability to have children? How would they be able to continue spending nearly all of their money on drinking if they were to begin saving for a new house? How adult-like would they be if they had children and continued to drink in an excessive and hazardous manner? How would they be able to face their parents and tell them about their long term aspirations, dreams, and goals while they still drank in a hazardous and excessive manner while having fun as they did when they were in college? What would their abusive and irresponsible drinking do to their relationship? How would their hazardous drinking affect their mental health?

From a different perspective, although neither one of them ever suffered from alcohol poisoning, received a DUI, or experienced alcohol withdrawal symptoms, they realized that their heavy and hazardous drinking was becoming a problem that they could not turn their backs on anymore.

After Giving Their State of Affairs Some Serious Thought, Augie and Merissa Finally Realized That Their Hopes, Dreams, and Plans Would not be Fulfilled if They Continued Their Excessive Drinking

All of these inquiries undoubtedly resulted in the same conclusion: Merissa and Augie needed to grasp the fact that they couldn’t continue their hazardous and heavy drinking if their dreams, aspirations, and hopes were to be met.

Once they settled upon this conclusion, they informed their drinking buddies about their plans to start a family, about their marital plans, and about their goal of buying or building a new house. They also told their drinking buddies that they still wanted to associate with them but that they would be drinking in strict moderation from this moment forward so that they could start realizing their future aspirations, goals, and dreams.

Much to their amazement, all of their friends expressed relief because they too had been reexamining their lives and concluded that their life-styles were much too frequently focused on drinking. They also felt that they would have to change notably if they were to become more mature and exhibit more respect for their careers, their goals, and for their health in the next ten or fifteen years.

After their conversation with their buddies about their aspirations, dreams, and goals, Augie and Merissa in actual fact started to have more meaningful relationships with all of their friends. The fundamental reason for this was the fact that all of them had a similar state of mind regarding their hazardous drinking and their relatively short and long-term plans, aspirations, and goals.

Jesse had an exceedingly difficult time keeping a job. In fact, because of his languor and lack of incentive, he was without a job far more often than he was employed. And when he did land a job, he had an exceptionally hard time getting to work in a timely manner, he commonly received less than acceptable performance assessments, and he called off sick so frequently that he almost always got fired a few weeks after he started working. To no one’s surprise, one of the consequences of Jesse’s terrible work history was the fact that he was virtually without a dime almost on a daily basis.

Regardless of Jesse’s deplorable employment record and financial misconduct, on the other hand, by hook or by crook he made it his business to drink heavily much of the time.

So it came as no big shock when Jesse got a fourth DWI. When he went to court, the judge stated to Jesse that his alcohol-related conduct was unacceptable and, as a consequence, he was going to sentence Jesse to serve eleven months in the local jail.

Time In The County Jail To Think About The Devastating Results of Hazardous Drinking

During his time in the municipal jail, Jesse was required to learn more about alcohol facts, about the negative effects of excessive drinking, and he was required to get alcohol counseling. The magistrate emphasized the fact that unless Jesse gets professional alcohol counseling and learns how to live an alcohol-free life, he will quite possibly be spending a considerable amount of time in the municipal jail.

Jesse articulated that he understood what the magistrate was pronouncing but he still stated that placement in the municipal jail was not the right punishment. The magistrate saw things in an entirely different Manner and proclaimed that it was his professional duty to keep alcohol dependent persons off the streets who drink and drive and who get arrested for a DWI. To corroborate this view, the magistrate quoted some honored, extensively researched alcohol statistics that underscored some of the adverse consequences that are related to hazardous drinking.

Even though Jesse comprehended that he drank in a hazardous manner, he never felt that he was an alcoholic. So it was quite a shock when Jesse began suffering from symptoms of alcohol withdrawal around five hours after getting locked up in the municipal jail.

To monitor his alcohol withdrawal symptoms in a harm free manner, Jesse was transferred to an alcohol rehab hospital for alcohol detoxification and then brought back to the county jail. While locked up in jail Jesse was given alcohol treatment but since he received this treatment as something that was imposed upon him, he did not take ownership of his excessive and abusive drinking.

When his time behind bars was over, the judge without indecision told Jesse that he would be under stringent scrutiny and would be mandated to take random breath alcohol tests.

Jessie’s Excessive and Hazardous Drinking Stops Him From Living in a Mature Manner

After hearing how Jesse was unsuccessful in taking ownership of his drinking problem and how he unwillingly followed the therapy code of behavior while in the municipal jail, the judge knew that it was simply a matter of time before he would be seeing Jesse once again in court about his hazardous drinking behavior. As the judge reflected on Jesse’s situation, he couldn’t help but think about how some individuals never use common sense and discover how to live in a mature and productive manner.

For the past seven years Natalie has been a nurse at a community hospital. As a professional nurse, she plainly knew what to tell her patients concerning their health difficulties but in her private life, nonetheless, she clearly didn’t practice what she preached. As an illustration, she normally drank in a careless manner, she didn’t exercise, she smoked about two packs of cigarettes per day, and she was approximately thirty-one pounds overweight.

Natalie Gets Into An Automobile Accident, Fails A Breathalyzer Test, and Goes to The County Jail

One day on her way to the hospital, Natalie got into a car accident. Since the accident was her fault and since her speech was jumbled when she spoke, the arresting highway patrolman gave her a breathalyzer test. In agreement with standard law enforcement policy, when an individual is involved in a traffic accident and fails a breathalyzer test, the individual has to spend at least five hours in jail.

In reality, Natalie should have known better than to drive after she had been drinking because she recently participated in an “alcohol awareness” class at the hospital that focused on issues, statistics, and information about alcohol facts such as the following: binge drinking, DUIs, alcohol poisoning, and the key differences between alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction.

Natalie is Experiencing Quite a Bit of Shame About Her Vehicle Accident

It almost goes without saying that Natalie felt embarrassed about her traffic accident. Additionally, she was embarrassed about the fact that the accident was her fault. And probably worst of all, she was embarrassed about the fact that she was driving while under the influence. As Natalie considered her circumstance, then again, she understood that it could have been far worse because at her place of employment, when a blood test for alcohol is administered and failed, the person has to go to mandatory alcohol rehabilitation and is placed on non-pay status. This was simply one of the alcohol facts that was a reality at her place of employment and not much could be expected to change this fact.

Natalie’s Shame About Her Car Accident Encourages Her To Reexamine Her Life and Make Some Important and Positive Alterations

In any event, Natalie’s disgrace about her car accident caused her to go over her life and make some important and healthy alterations. First, she was going to refrain from drinking in an irresponsible and hazardous manner. Second, she was going to quit smoking. Third, she was going to lose some weight. And fourth, she was going to start exercising.

As depressed as Natalie was about the entire automobile accident situation, she used this awful experience as a trigger for healthy change. Moreover, she used her embarrassing experience as a realization that she had been neglecting her own health while she professionally told other individuals how to live a more healthy life. At last, she eventually saw the hypocrisy in her behavior and made up her mind that she would live her life as a positive source of motivation for the individuals she treated at the hospital.