Wandering Alone in the Dark

Occasionally, you will have an employee who is so withdrawn into themselves that you don’t think that you will ever be able to establish a close bond or connection with them. This may be due to many reasons, but their withdrawal coupled with a certain reading on a drug screening test can be cause for very real concern.

Not everyone stresses out in the same way when they are faced with problems. Sometimes people fight the problem and will it to bow to their needs with their warrior like personality. Some people run away from issues and get in the habit of running from the slightest problems in their lives. Some individuals find that their mood becomes really depressed. And then you find people who, when they are stressed out, withdraw into themselves, into the quiet and solitude of their own minds and hearts, that it is practically impossible to pull them back out again.

When one of these individuals abuses drugs or alcohol, their mindset is destructive but not in the typical ways which we have all seen alcoholics to behave. Instead, they are wandering alone in the dark. They are used to being alone, so this is not where it is destructive for them. They live solitary lives, naturally and happily. But the darkness, that is what gets to them over time. In fact, substance abuse will not seem to even affect them at first and to a large extent it doesn’t. They already have mental habits of solitude, but these just happen to be how they think normally.

It is the darkness which is stifling and scary.

Wandering alone in the dark is much scarier than being in a crowd of people who are with you.

Mediscreen gives you the tools you need to use alcohol testing and drug screening on your own employees. We are accredited by NATA for urine testing and onsite saliva collections, we provide onsite drug and alcohol screening services nationwide and, most of all, we really care about the success and growth of your business. Find out which of your employees may need to receive some help. Nobody should have to wander alone in the dark.

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