helped someone who was said and hurt describe that situation
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I certainly tried, but failed miserably. I didn't know how to react, and my shock was so great that my normally spontaneous organisational skills deserted me completely. All I really managed to do was use my personal radio to call control to call an ambulance, full emergency. (I wasn't carrying my phone out in the field).
The lad was conscious but lying in a large pool of his own blood vomited from his stomach. There's a name for this condition, but don't ask me.
I still feel a total failure for this. I perhaps could have done something more but blood in quantity is not my strong point and we both needed assistance, right NOW !!!
An ambulance arrived quickly and the chap survived for another three months (waiting for a liver transplant that never came). I am shaking now just from this memory.
Explanation:
Trying to motivate someone to change a behavior they have no interest in abandoning may seem like a futile effort, especially when it comes to addiction. Push someone struggling with addiction too hard to get help or acknowledge they have a problem and your efforts can backfire, driving them to cling harder to the behavior or substance that’s causing them problems or making them more likely to cut you out of their lives. Accommodate their behavior one too many times and you may feel you’re enabling them—and watching them get worse and worse.