Do/Don't Essay

Here is the best kept secret about Proctor Care. Anyone can do it. It's just knowing how to do it. Here are the two hardest things about Proctor Care. One of the hardest things is knowing who you trust. It's hard to trust someone. Trust me, I know. I've been screwed over and lied about a lot. Second is pushing yourself. Speaking from experience, I have had people try to break me down, and tell me that I will NEVER succeed. I let that get to me. I got depressed, but eventually I told them they were wrong and pushed on harder.

Here are the Do's & Don't's of Proctor Care.

Do: Follow every instruction given to you specifically how you are told. It makes life a lot easier, and eventually, you get more freedom. I followed the rules well enough in my placement that I can leave any time I want to go hang out with friends. As long as I come back by a good time.

Don't: Don't trust anyone. Unless you know someone, do not trust them. A good example of "trust" (sarcastically speaking) is when I trusted my proctor brother to keep secret that I was smoking. If you tell someone to keep a secret like that. It won't be kept for long. Trust is hard to find, and it's not easily earned.

Do: Do what you need to do. Follow your treatment, do school, take care of yourself. The key to success is to push yourself. In proctor care, you have to push it. That's how you get things. If you need help, ask. If you need support, ask. If you need anything, all you need to do is ask. It makes life in the system so much easier. 

Don't: Stress yourself out.. Since I have been in proctor care, I have relapsed. As a side effect of stress, we do stupid things. Not just drugs. Sometimes we get so stressed, we run, we drink, we do all kinds of things to cope with that stress. I guess that's why they give us a therapist. We need to use that, instead of do the same things were in here for to get rid of our problems. Or else we'll just run into even more problems.

And finally, do: Get along with your proctor brother. This may seem unimportant, but trust me, it is. Me fighting with my proctor brother has gotten me in quite a it of trouble. We disagree on almost everything. If you don't learn the right way to take care of it, you get angry, and you do things your not supposed to. The last thing any of us need is to get into a fight.

But for the love of everything holy, don't: Don't get comfortable, if you get comfortable, it makes it a lot easier to get into trouble. I got comfortable at my placement because of how lenient my proctors were. So I would sneak out and smoke. Were not here for a luxury stay, we're here to fix our problems. And we all have problems we need to take care of. That's why we're in the system.