Avoiding Chemical Dependency Essay

In the health risk assessment, my highest scores were avoiding chemical dependency, personal safety, and emotional well-being. Avoiding chemical dependency is one of my highest scored topics because I do not drink, or do drugs. I am a firm believer that taking drugs, and drinking underage, will ruin your life, so I stay far away from them. Some ways that I stay away from drugs and drinking is that I do not go to parties. A lot of students come to college for the social scene and the partying. I am here to get an education, so when a party comes up it is easy for me to say no. Personal safety is one of my other high scores. Not partying is one of the reason this one of the highest. There are a lot of things that can happen at parties, like getting raped, getting drunk, and possibly drinking and driving. So I try to steer clear of parties, and the effects it has on people. Avoiding chemical dependency and having personal safety are the reasons that emotional well-being was one of the highest. Being emotional well is collected from a lot of aspects. But, not having bad chemicals in your body is one of the best ways to be emotionally stable. Drugs will alter the way your mind works, making to impossible to be stable. Personal safety will keep you at ease with knowing that you are doing everything in your power to keep yourself safe. …show more content…
Fitness is my lowest because I do not make it a priority to go to the gym and work out. I do try to do little things, though, like walk up the stairs instead of taking the elevator and walking everywhere instead of taking the Cat Tran. There have been many different ideas that I have been thinking about to improve my physical fitness; taking some dance classes is on the top of my list, dancing is an amazing way to help someone get back into shape and I plan on starting to dance again very