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Stress Related to Georgia Criminal Charge

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I want to talk to you for a minute about the stress that comes from being charged with any type of criminal offense, especially one like DUI that could affect your ability to drive. Many people find that it's almost impossible to sleep and get a full night's sleep because the stress their going through. Lack of sleep can lead to other problems including inability to do your job and inability to focus. Believe it or not some people actually have accidents because they are so distracted by the case they can’t pay attention to what they’re doing on the road way. They can also cause problems with relationships. Such as your marriage or significant other, your children, even your parents if that's the situation you're in.

What we try to tell people is you’re going to have to realize that when you hire an attorney one of the things you're doing is shifting the weight from your shoulders to theirs. If you need medical help you're going to have to seek that yourself. We will try to help you find someone if you don't know someone who deals with these issues. Sometimes people just have to talk it out with a counselor. Sometimes they have a trusted friend or a pastor, minister, or rabbi they can talk to.

If you don't have someone like that we don't want you to try to deal with it and get no kind of help at all. When we’ve seen this happen we see people deteriorate and get worse and worse and sometimes resort to drinking and that's the worst thing you could do is get in more more trouble while this is pending.

What we're going to recommend you do is that if you need a recommendation to a doctor or a psychologist you can call us and we'll help you find someone that’s close to work or home so that you can see them. Why this is important is that stress is something like snow. If it keeps building up sometimes it can be a collapse of the whole roof system. By that I mean that people can have a nervous breakdown and unfortunately in about a dozen cases in my thirty three plus years we've had clients before they ever got to court commit suicide. We don't want to ever have that happen. That's a tragedy that should never come from something like a DUI when we have such good results overall at getting the case knocked out and we know we're going to be able to take the person through the process one way or the other without it being devastating to them.

People in their mind sometimes have beliefs that this is not going to work out or they have a fear of some part of the case. It may be going back to jail that becomes such an obstacle they can’t keep going. We recommended that people follow a series of things such as getting exercise, being careful about your diet, don't start eating just fast food for example as you need a very healthy diet. Exercise we've found is probably the most important thing because it takes away a lot of tension.

We have a clip coming up from Doctor Blue and he’s going to talk to you about some of the problems that can come from stress and how these things are all connected. I’d like you to watch this clip and see if you get something out of it. Remember if you're having a problem, please talk to the attorney assigned to your case and we'll help you find someone in your area.

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