A Young Woman Gets Divorced, Gets Depressed, Engages in Hazardous and Abusive Drinking, and Receives First Class Help at an Alcohol Rehabilitation Clinic
Written by admin on Monday, March 29th, 2010 in Addictions.
Wendy was the mother of two children. Wendy had been feeling quite anxious lately and started to “medicate” herself by having three or four screwdrivers every evening after she put her children to bed. After approximately six weeks of this drinking routine, she at last comprehended the fact that rather than helping her calm down and ”muddle through” her issues, drinking made her feel less tranquil when she awakened in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel increasingly more tense throughout the day.
After thinking about her circumstance for several weeks, Wendy made up her mind to discuss her drinking problem with her best friend. In fact, about twenty-five minutes into their conversation, Wendy’s friend, Karina, told her that she knew about an extremely experienced and skillful psychiatrist at the local alcohol and drug rehab facility. After talking to her friend, Wendy without delay got motivated to call the treatment center and schedule an appointment.
Six days later she eventually got to meet the psychiatrist her best friend had been talking about. After their brief introduction, Wendy explained to the physician that ever since her ex-husband and she got divorced, she has been having a very hard time spiritually, financially, and psychologically.
At times, she felt that she was 100% over the divorce. Recently, on the other hand, she has been feeling very depressed about the fact that she and her former husband couldn’t “make it”. When asked by the doctor how long she and her ex-husband went together before they got married, Wendy told the physician that her ex-husband and she went out for two years and then lived together for three-and-a-half years before they got married.
As Wendy was talking to the psychiatrist, she emphasized the point that she truthfully thought that she and Robert waited long enough to know one another well enough before they got married. After the kids started to arrive, on the other hand, just about everything seemed to go downhill. To make mattes even worse, both Robert and she began to drink, and their irresponsible and unhealthy drinking adversely affected their love for one another, their finances, and their relationship.
When things became less than cordial between them, Robert got an attorney and filed for a divorce. Even though things were noticeably not going well and even though she was routinely depressed, Wendy told the doctor that she didn’t want to terminate their relationship. Once she received the divorce papers, however, she knew that their relationship was over.
The physician explained to Wendy that the tension, stress, and anxiety that she has been suffering from regarding her careless drinking are some of the more commonplace alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this situation is treatment for one’s alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is extremely important because chronic drinking can get the person into even more serious alcohol and alcoholism difficulties.
After seven or eight treatment sessions with her psychiatrist, Wendy was slowly but surely able to see that the real cause of her stress and her depression was that she had not laid to rest her angry feelings she has for her former husband who had divorced her two years ago. With these insights and with the meds her psychiatrist prescribed, she eventually abstained from drinking, she started to feel substantially less depressed, and she began making more time for social events with her friends and family. A few months after receiving treatment from her doctor, she even started to date once again.
It was plain to see that Wendy had come a long way. In point of fact, just about nine months after she terminated her therapy, Wendy had finally laid the depressing feelings of her ex-husband to rest and was beginning to feel more complete and more spiritually “sound” and psychologically “together” than she had ever felt in her life.