Aug 15

Jesse had a hard time maintaining a job. In truth, due to his inactivity and lack of drive, he was without a job far more regularly than he was employed. And when he did get a job, he had an extremely hard time getting to work when his shift started, he usually received less than optimal performance assessments, and he called off sick so frequently that he regularly got fired a week or two after he started working. It goes without saying that one of the outcomes of Jesse’s shameful employment record was the fact that he was virtually penniless from day-to-day.

Regardless of Jesse’s crummy work record and financial disregard, nevertheless, somehow, someway he made it his business to drink in an abusive and irresponsible manner on a daily basis.

So it came as no big surprise when Jesse got arrested for a second DUI. When he went to court, the magistrate clearly stated to Jesse that his alcohol-related behavior was appalling and, consequently, he was going to sentence Jesse to serve ten months in the municipal jail.

Time In The County Jail To Reflect On The Demoralizing Effects of Excessive Drinking

During his time behind bars, Jesse was expected to learn more about alcohol facts, about the damaging consequences of hazardous drinking, and he was required to get alcohol rehab. The judge highlighted the fact that unless Jesse gets professional alcohol counseling and discovers how to live a life of abstinence, he will more likely than not be spending a considerable amount of time incarcerated in jail.

Jesse stated that he grasped what the magistrate was saying but he still felt that placement in the county jail was not the best judgment. The magistrate disagreed and stated that it was his duty to keep alcohol dependent individuals off the streets who drive and drink and who receive a DWI. To give credibility to this statement, the magistrate quoted some honored, comprehensively researched alcohol statistics that pointed to some of the damaging outcomes that are correlated with abusive drinking.

Although Jesse comprehended that he drank in an excessive and hazardous manner, he never felt that he was an individual who was dependent on alcohol. So it was a big bombshell when Jesse began experiencing symptoms of alcohol withdrawal just about seven hours after going to jail.

To manage his alcohol withdrawal symptoms in a harm free manner, Jesse was taken by ambulance to a rehab facility for alcohol detoxification and then brought back to the city jail. While in jail Jesse was given a mental health exam for his depression and undertook alcohol counseling but because he received this treatment as something that was forced upon him, he failed to take ownership of his hazardous and abusive drinking.

When his time in the municipal jail was completed, the magistrate without faltering told Jesse that he would be under close observation and would be required to take random blood alcohol tests.

Jessie’s Hazardous and Abusive Drinking Prevents Him From Living in an Adult and Productive Manner

After hearing how Jesse did not take ownership of his drinking situation and how he halfheartedly followed the rehab code of behavior while in the city jail, the judge knew that it was essentially a matter of time before he would be seeing Jesse once again in court about his hazardous and abusive drinking behavior. As the judge thought about Jesse’s situation, he couldn’t help but think about how some people never use their intellect and learn how to live in a mature and effective manner.

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Jul 04

Teresa was a thirty-seven-year-old cost estimator who knew that she had some problems with her drinking. For instance, within the past six months she has experienced the need to have two or three drinks before going to work, seven weeks ago she tested positive for a blood alcohol test at work, three weeks ago she got stopped by the state highway patrol for a DUI, and lastly, for the past three months she has begun to forget what she does and says when she drinks with her pals.

Like huge numbers of other individuals, Teresa’s experiences with alcohol started out at a “snail’s pace” and remained at this pace for quite some time due to the fact every now and again she engaged in occasional social drinking. As a matter of fact, for approximately two years, every time she went out with her friends to drink, she made sure to drink responsibly. Something about her drinking activities, nonetheless, seemed to radically change when she got divorced.

So She Can Endure the Loss of Her Husband In a Less Troublesome Manner, Teresa Came to a Decision That She Will Start Going Out More Often With Some of Her Friends Who Love to Have Fun Drinking

Teresa got dreadfully despondent about the divorce from her husband, and as a way to stop fixating on her negative feelings she came to the conclusion that she would start going out more frequently with some of her friends who love to drink and have fun.

Quite candidly, Teresa thought that having fun nearly every day by getting “mellow” and drinking with her buddies would help her recover from the loss of her husband with less grief.

Teresa’s Drinking Escalates Significantly the More Habitually She Goes to Happy Hours, Family Get-Togethers, Private Parties, Sporting Events, and Dinner Dates With Her Friends

It didn’t take long, nevertheless, before her drinking escalated to a significant extent the more often she went to and drank at happy hours, sporting events, family get-togethers, private parties, and dinner dates with her pals. What is more, the fact that her drinking buddies were all many years younger than she was and therefore able to party and drink more carelessly was one of the reasons why she didn’t allocate more of her attention to her increased drinking. Simply put, she was partying just like everyone else in her group of friends without much reflection about the consequences of her abusive and excessive drinking.

Yet somewhere in her mind she realized that she most probably needed alcohol rehab but stayed away from the thought as much as she could.

Teresa Gets a Physical Exam, Discloses the Truth About Her Excessive and Hazardous Drinking to Her Doctor, and Discloses the Truth About Her Dejection

One afternoon during her annual physical exam, her healthcare professional asked her if she drank alcohol. Not wanting to lie to her doctor, Teresa acknowledged that she frequently drinks more than she should. In actual fact, she articulated that she commonly drinks in an excessive manner. Then Teresa told her healthcare professional about her general state of gloom. More specifically, she mentioned that wrecked relationships more often than not set off a dismal cycle of events characterized by increased drinking which further resulted in more disheartening feelings that, in turn, resulted in more drinking. And this is explicitly what took place when her husband and she got divorced four years ago.

When her physician heard this, he informed Teresa that according to various facts and statistics on alcoholism he has been exploring, alcoholism and depression routinely take place in the same individual. He then told her that some of the alcohol statistics, research investigations, and facts he has been studying also emphasize the fact that people who drink in an abusive manner and who also suffer from depression need to obtain treatment for both medical situations.

Teresa’s Doctor Makes an Appointment for a Psychological Assessment and For an Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Assessment

Teresa’s physician then said the following: “I am not trying to make an overly quick diagnosis, but with your medical situation we may be confronting two separate problems. As a consequence, I think we probably need to make an appointment for you to get an alcoholism and alcohol abuse assessment from my partner, Dr. Bornhorst, who is an alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction specialist. Whether your drinking circumstance is more linked to alcohol abuse or alcoholism is unclear at this time, but I feel that further assessment is warranted. Then I feel we probably should schedule an appointment for you to get a psychological exam from another one of my partners, Dr. Berger, who is a psychologist. I want to get a better understanding about your depression and see how much your drinking and depression are related.” Teresa expressed her satisfaction with her physician’s strategy and thanked him for his help and concern. Now all she had to do was to try to cut back on her drinking and get ready for her appointments.

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