A Young Woman Gets a Divorce, Gets Depressed, Engages in Hazardous and Heavy Drinking, and Finds Excellent Help at an Alcohol Rehabilitation Facility
Wendy was the mother of three children. Wendy had been feeling quite tense lately and started to "medicate" herself by having four or five martinis every evening after she put her children to bed. After just about five months of this drinking routine, she finally realized that rather than helping her ”chill out" and cope with her difficulties, drinking made her feel less restful when she got up in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel increasingly more tense throughout the day.
After thinking about her situation for several days, Wendy decided to "open up" about her drinking problem with her best friend. In fact, roughly five minutes into their discussion, Wendy’s friend, Brooke, told her that she knew about an extremely helpful and skillful physician at the local alcohol and drug rehabilitation facility. After talking to her friend, Wendy immediately got motivated to call the rehab facility and schedule an appointment.
Eleven days later she finally got to meet the psychiatrist her best friend had been talking about. After their short-and-to-the-point introduction, Wendy told the psychiatrist that ever since her ex-husband and she got divorced, she has been having a difficult time emotionally, financially, and spiritually.
At times, she felt that she was totally over the divorce. Recently, conversely, she has been feeling quite depressed about the fact that her former husband and she couldn't stay married and “make it”. When asked by the psychiatrist how long her ex-husband and she dated before they got married, Wendy told the doctor that Robert, her former husband, and she dated for three-and-a-half years and then lived together for a year before they got married.
As Wendy was talking to the physician, she emphasized the point that she really believed that her ex-husband and she waited long enough to know one another well enough before they got married. After the kids started to arrive, however, their lives seemed to go downhill. To make matters worse, both she and Robert began to drink, and their careless drinking adversely affected their relationship, their love for one another, and their finances.
When things became less than pleasant between them, Robert got a lawyer and filed for a divorce. Although things were obviously not going well and although she was routinely depressed, Wendy told the doctor that she did not want to put an end to their marriage. Once she was served the divorce papers, however, she knew that their relationship was over.
The psychiatrist explained to Wendy that the anxiety, stress, and tension that she has been experiencing concerning her hazardous and excessive drinking are some of the better known 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 essential because long-term drinking can get the drinker into even more severe alcohol and alcoholism difficulties.
After a number of counseling sessions with her physician, Wendy was gradually able to realize that the real cause of her stress and her depression was that she had not worked through her nasty feelings she has for her ex-husband who had divorced her two-and-a-half years ago. With these insights and with the meds her doctor prescribed, she eventually stopped drinking, she started to feel considerably less depressed, and she began making more time for social activities with her friends and family. A few months after receiving counseling from her physician, she even began to date once again.
It was clear that Wendy had come a long way. Indeed, just about seven months after she terminated her counseling, Wendy had finally laid the harmful thoughts of Robert, her former husband, to rest and was starting to feel more complete and more spiritually "sound" and psychologically “together” than she had ever felt in her life.
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