Gabriella Korosi
Bio
I am a writer, public health professional, a nurse. Creator of connections, spreading positivity. Interests: health/spirituality/positivity/joy/caring/public health/nursing. My goal is to create positive change.https://gabriellakorosi.org
Stories (75/0)
The Ultimate Crash and Recovery - Toni's Story
I drive over again to Traci's house where Toni is visiting her sister for a few days. It is a nice summer morning. I know the way I was just here a week or so ago. It is fun to meet a fraternal twin. They look so much alike. I instantly liked her it was the same way as with Traci. Both are wonderful people. Toni invites me in, and we sit down at the dining room table. I ask her if she has any questions before we begin. Traci already told her everything, so we began the recording almost immediately.
By Gabriella Korosi3 years ago in Psyche
Break The Stress Cycle
Do you feel stressed today? Stress can easily sneak into our lives. Living in a COVID -19 pandemic, loss of family, health issues, problems at your job, having financial difficulties, low income, and poverty are just a few things that can boost the stress response.
By Gabriella Korosi3 years ago in Psyche
Addiction - What is Addiction? Part 1
Hear the voice of everyday people - collection of stories and experiences by Gabriella Kőrösi, PhD, MN, RN What is addiction? What has been other people's experience? If someone would ask people randomly right now what addiction is what they would say? Beth told me she thinks addiction is when the body needs something, it's the brain signaling that it needs something that the individual cannot live without. Powerful, the brain is telling the person what to do. The individual affected becomes a whole separate person; the brain is in control. It can also be a genetic disease, something that people are were born with. She describes drugs as poison to the body.
By Gabriella Korosi3 years ago in Psyche
Addiction- What is Addiction?
Addiction can strike in many different ways, losing finances can be one consequence. Dr. Tedd Levin who has been a physician in family medicine was telling me a story about 2 people who spent $ 50,000 a year to support their cocaine addiction, and lost everything they had, including their home. He also describes a lot of overlap between mental illness and addiction. He had a lot of experience working with youth. Working as a center physician for Job Corps youth for 17 years he has seen lots of young people between 16–25 years old who have been in multiple rehabs for treatment of addiction, and multiple psychiatric hospitalizations. He describes that it is difficult to figure out if it is a drug induced psychosis or a primary mental illness that the patient is going through such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Dr. Tedd Levin feels that all type of addictions are very tough to treat. We had a conversation about smoking and how smoking has been declining, but now a new thing coming up like vaping. There is always something new comes up. We discussed obesity and the consequences related to obesity. Addictions are tough no matter what the choice is alcohol, drugs, smoking or food.
By Gabriella Korosi3 years ago in Psyche
Addiction- What is Addiction?
Ron talks about addiction in the little town he lives in now and asserts that for such a small rural touristy town there is a lot of addiction that can be found here. Ron works as a nurse at a clinic. He has never seen a small town with so many heroin and meth users. He supports marijuana use. He saw a lot of opiate addiction. It keeps surprising him how much is going on in a small town. He has a lot of friends from south Florida who used meth, cocaine and alcohol. He talks about a guy he lived with that he knew for decades. They were social friends. They ended up moving in together for a while. Everything was great for a while, then his friend started to get into the meth crowd. It was very popular then. This was around 2008–2009. Things started to go very "wonky". As time went by and his friend was doing more clubbing and using meth, he started to do very weird things. He started to get paranoid. He thought people are watching him and getting signals through the appliances in the house and the neighbor next door is one of "them". (whoever they are). Consequently, Ron said he found a way to get into the wall space between the two condos and he would spy on the neighbor. The neighbor could hear him walking in the space between the condos. One day he took the electric pencil sharpener apart and was showing Ron proof that "they" came into the house and reconfigured the electronics of the pencil sharpener. He was showing Ron how they are transmitting signals through it. Ron told him it looks like a pencil sharpener that was taken apart. He would get very frustrated with Ron because Ron did not see what he saw. His friends did not see it. He slowly thought his friends were watching him and doing things because they did not play along in his fantasy. It became more and more bizarre and less rational and stable; he began to have financial problems because he spent money on meth but not paying bills. Ron came home one day, and his friend handed him a battery charger that was Ron's; it was wet. Ron asked why is it wet? His friend said he had to throw it into the toilet, it was the only way they would stop sending signals. Ron was like, oh, this is bad. All this happened in south Florida where air conditioning is essential. It is hot and humid. Ron thought "we are on a roller-coaster now". He would come home and find his friend covering up the windows and doors with black tarp and plastic taped on. His friend thought that "they are" in the parking lot watching him. It was dark in the apartment. Ron, at this point started to plan to escape. Ron was one of the last one's he was not one of them yet. The circle of friends was getting smaller and now the inner circle of friends was even getting smaller. He was at the deep end. The friends tried interventions, but it did not work. He elected to keep doing meth. One-night Ron's date was afraid to stay over, because his friend was getting very weird. Ron was planning to move out as soon as he could. At night Ron when was sleeping his friend barged in woke him up and asked him who he was talking to. Ron said he was sleeping. He insisted Ron was talking to somebody. He told Ron: "I know that you are talking to them now". At that point Ron become one of them, he was fearing for his safety. He came home the next day, and his key wouldn't open the door. His friend locked him out and told him he cannot come back there anymore. He allowed him to come back on Saturday between 9–11 to get his stuff. Ron was actually glad to be out of there. This event made him move sooner than later. He went from a very good friend to a mentally disturbed person. His friend ended up selling the condo. He moved away and eventually got into rehab and got sober. Ron said we will always be fine. He had not heard from his friend now for about 7–8 years. He was one of those people who got wrapped up in this destroying lifestyle. Ron witnessed this transformation from someone normal with a lot of friends and being popular to this "monster". It was very sad. His friend took the refrigerator and the oven apart, took the air conditioner apart. Ron would tell others these stories and it sounded fictional, but it was not. He would go home and there was no air conditioning. Ron was glad he did not become one of "them" until the end. Ron was telling me a lot of people were dying at this time in South Florida from using meth, overdosing, committing suicide. Ron would talk to other people who confirmed what was common in meth use: voices in the walls, signals from appliances. Ron calls this story: "My roommate from hell". He can laugh about it now, it was sad, but also funny, the things he did was crazy, sad and funny at the same time. The recovery was very hard for his friend from being a meth addict to become a normal person again. It cost a lot of money. All his resources went to getting sober. He got so caught up in the addiction that he did not realize what was going on. He got into it because of the social community around him. It was a party scene town especially in the gay community. Coming from non-acceptance in family or the community. That group become a chemical community, sense of belonging, become a social activity that sucked people in. Ron felt that people got really wrapped up in the party drugs and sex. Sex was a big focus too.
By Gabriella Korosi3 years ago in Psyche
I lost my pants in Texas - Part 1
I recently told a friend about writing this story. She said based on the title she imagined a wandering pair of pants in Texas. I thought that was a great idea. It is true that I do not know where my pants are and what had happened to them. They could be wandering somewhere. I hope someone found them and got a good use out of them. They were a nice pretty new pair of pants. If you do see some wandering blue jeans in Texas please make sure to let me know.
By Gabriella Korosi3 years ago in Wander
I lost my pants in Texas -Part 2
We decided to stop, walk around the park a little and dip in the water and relax for a while. It was wonderful to get out of the car and rest for a few hours. It was a great combination of hot and cold water that was built out by the local people and it was free to use for everyone. There were multiple pools built with the rocks from the river. Some of the pools were warmer where the spring came in and it got cooler as we got more into the river and the hot spring got mixed with the river water. The water felt wonderful and the environment was beautiful. We had some wonderful conversations with people who were local to the area and some who were just visiting. It was a nice break from driving. If we could have, we definitely would have stayed longer.
By Gabriella Korosi3 years ago in Wander
I lost my pants in Texas Part 3
Texas. I have to say that people drive fast and crazy in Texas. I was very happy to get there as I knew that my friend was waiting for us and we had a bed to sleep in that night. I was also very excited to visit my friend and her family. It is true: Texas is a very hot place. We crossed to Texas in early morning hours and yet it took us a whole day to get to my friend’s house. By that time, it was around 10pm. During the day it got very hot. It was time to change into some lighter summer wear as the car did not have air conditioning. We stopped at a visitor center, and I went to the bathroom to change my clothes. You are right, this will be the place where I lost my pants in Texas. We are not there just yet. I went to the bathroom and used the family bathroom thinking I can wash up a little before changing. It has been a while since Utah and a nice shower. I also did not want to show up at my friend’s house all sweaty. Everything went fine until I realized that the water faucet did not work in the family bathroom. The soap did. So, I was standing there soaped up with no water. It was one of those moments when you stop in your life and think ok this just happened now what? So, imagine yourself all soaped up in a visitor center’s bathroom and you find out that there is no running water. After a minute I decided soapy or not the only way out of this is to put my dress on and head to the other women’s bathroom hoping that there is not too many people and that the water will be working there. While I was gathering all my clothes there were many thoughts going through my head. I mostly was worrying about bra and underwear and hiding them in my shirt.
By Gabriella Korosi3 years ago in Wander