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I've made some decent progress this week, surprisingly enough. I have an interview for an internship at Disc Village on friday morning, which I'm pretty excited about. Disc Village is a substance abuse/mental health facility. I won't hear back til about a week after because they have to do a background check first. I guess they want to know if their employees are psychopaths or drug dealers, fair enough. I'm a bit confused about the whole background check process though. I'm assuming that this check is for everything that occurred after the age of 18. If not, then I'm worried. I went into inpatient 30 day rehab before I was 18 for a drug problem that I've overcome, thankfully. It's been about 4 years since I've used. I never got arrested but came close a few times. One weird experience I had happened before I went into rehab, occurred when I was at a Dairy Queen. It's funny, but ever since I have never felt completely comfortable at a Dairy Queen, but anyway. I was quite under the influence of my DOC and was with my current boyfriend and a friend, both of which were else high, and we were eating (or making an attempt) ice cream. I guess I was so high that I was nodding out while eating the ice cream, though I don't remember much of anything, and when we got up to get into my car a man approached me and snagged my car keys out of my hand. I don't remember what he looks like, or where he was in the store, but he said he is an off duty officer and won't allow me to get in my car because of my condition. My bf and friend immediately started yelling at the guy and I just whined that "I'm tired" and not high... *cough* bullshit *cough*. Anyway, I have no idea where the guy went after that but he left w/my keys and said he was going to bring them to my parents at my house. Now that I think about it, I don't remember giving him my address, or name for that matter. Again, I was so high I can't imagine I'd remember anything anyway from that day. So, we called my boyfriend's mom to come pick us up and I frantically tried to get ahold of my mom to see if the police came to the door. When we got to my parents house, they had no idea any of it happened and hadn't heard from the police about my keys, so needless to say they weren't happy to hear about all of this from me. I don't remember the guy ever coming to the house to drop off my keys, but I do remember my dad screaming at my boyfriend. Another thing I remember, is that was the day I sat down with my mom and said I need to go into rehab, and asap. No outpatient nonsense cause I'd find a way to use, so she said ok we're gonna do this. I've always wondered if the guy was some sort of guardian angel keeping me from getting into my car. Maybe I was gonna get into an accident or something. I've had some other experiences similar to this where somehow I got out of pretty bad situations, specifically when I was saved and brought to a hospital or I would've overdosed, but no need to get into all that.
Anyway! Now that I've gone on and on about that, I'm wondering if my going into rehab would be on my record somehow, and if it would affect my position there if it did come up. It was when I was really young so it probably won't, but it makes me nervous. I think if anything my experience has made me want to help adolescent substance abusers and be able to relate to them, hence why I want this internship.
I guess I'll know when it all comes back.
Anyway! Now that I've gone on and on about that, I'm wondering if my going into rehab would be on my record somehow, and if it would affect my position there if it did come up. It was when I was really young so it probably won't, but it makes me nervous. I think if anything my experience has made me want to help adolescent substance abusers and be able to relate to them, hence why I want this internship.
I guess I'll know when it all comes back.