A Young Woman Gets Divorced, Becomes Depressed, Engages in Abusive and Irresponsible Drinking, and Receives Excellent Help at an Alcohol Treatment Center
Wendy was the mother of two children. Wendy had been feeling quite anxious lately and started to “medicate” herself by having a few shots of burbon each evening after she put her children to bed. After approximately six weeks of this drinking routine, she at last comprehended the fact that instead of helping her unwind and deal with her issues, drinking made her feel less tranquil when she got up in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel even more stressed all through the day.
After thinking about her predicament for four or five days, Wendy decided to talk about her drinking situation with her best friend. In fact, just about five minutes into their chat, Wendy’s friend, Elisa, told her that she knew about a very competent and supportive psychiatrist at the local alcohol and drug rehab center. After talking to her friend, Wendy without much ado got motivated to call the rehab clinic and schedule an appointment.
Five days later she finally got to meet the physician her best friend had been talking about. After their short-and-to-the-point introduction, Wendy explained to the doctor that ever since her ex-husband and she got divorced, she has been having an extremely difficult time financially, emotionally, and spiritually.
At times, she felt that the divorce was behind her. Recently, to the contrary, she has been feeling extremely depressed about the fact that her former husband and she couldn’t stay married and “make it”. When asked by the doctor how long her ex-husband and she dated before they got married, Wendy explained to the psychiatrist that she and her former husband, Robert, went out for four-and-a-half years and then lived together for a-year-and-a-half before they got married.
As Wendy was talking to the doctor, she emphasized the point that she frankly thought that they waited long enough to know each other well enough before they got married. After the children started to arrive, however, just about everything appeared to fall apart. Not only this but both she and Robert began to drink, and their careless and abusive drinking negatively affected their relationship, their love for one another, and their finances.
When things became less than civil between them, Robert got an attorney and filed for a divorce. Even though things were plainly not going well and although she was frequently depressed, Wendy told the doctor that she didn’t want to terminate their relationship. Once she was served her divorce papers, however, she knew that their marriage was over.
The physician explained to Wendy that the stress, anxiety, and tension that she has been going through concerning her careless drinking are some of the common 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 critical because repeated drinking can get the individual into even more debilitating alcohol and alcoholism difficulties.
After nine or ten therapy sessions with her physician, Wendy was gradually able to comprehend the fact that the real root of her anxiety and her depression was that she had not resolved her angry feelings she has for her ex-husband who had divorced her a year ago. With these insights and with the medications her physician prescribed, she eventually refrained from drinking, she started to feel much 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 seven months after she terminated her counseling, Wendy had finally laid the negative feelings of Robert, her ex-husband, to rest and was beginning to feel more self worth and more spiritually “sound” and psychologically “together” than she had ever felt in her life.