A Female Gets a Divorce, Becomes Depressed, Engages in Excessive and Hazardous Drinking, and Receives Extraordinary Help at an Alcohol Rehabilitation Center
Posted by Depressed - 11/03/10 at 10:03 pmWendy was the mother of two children. Wendy had been feeling quite fretful lately and started to “medicate” herself by having three or four screwdrivers each night after she put her children to bed. After just about eight weeks of this drinking routine, she at last comprehended the fact that rather than helping her calm down and ”handle” her issues, drinking made her feel less restful when she awakened in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel more stressed all through the day.
After thinking about her circumstance for a few weeks, Wendy decided to “open up” about her problem drinking with her best friend. In point of fact, just about twenty minutes into their discussion, Wendy’s friend, Amelia, told her about a very knowledgeable and competent psychiatrist at the local alcohol and drug treatment clinic. After talking to her friend, Wendy without much ado got encouraged to call the rehab facility and make an appointment.
Twelve days later she finally got to meet the physician her friend had talked about. After their short introduction, Wendy told the psychiatrist that ever since her former husband and she got divorced, she has been having an extremely difficult time financially, psychologically, and spiritually.
At times, she felt that the divorce was behind her. Recently, though, she has been feeling very depressed about the fact that her former husband and she couldn’t “make it”. When asked by the doctor how long she and her former husband went together before they got married, Wendy told the psychiatrist that she and her former husband, Robert, went out for five-and-a-half years and then lived together for a-year-and-a-half before they got married.
As Wendy was talking to the psychiatrist, she emphasized the point that she truthfully thought that her ex-husband and she waited long enough to know each other well enough before they got married. After the children started to arrive, conversely, everything seemed to worsen. Not only this but both Robert and she started to drink, and their unhealthy drinking negatively affected their relationship, their finances, and their love for one another.
When things became less than congenial between them, Robert got a divorce attorney and filed for a divorce. Even though things were clearly not going well and even though she was routinely depressed, Wendy told the psychiatrist that she did not want to put a stop to their marriage. Once she was served her divorce papers, however, she knew that their marriage was over.
The doctor explained to Wendy that the stress, tension, and anxiety that she has been going through regarding her excessive and unhealthy drinking are some of the usual alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this circumstance is treatment for one’s alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is very important because chronic drinking can get the person into even more dangerous alcohol and alcoholism problems.
After eleven or twelve treatment sessions with her psychiatrist, Wendy was slowly but surely able to comprehend the fact that the real basis of her stress and her depression was that she had not worked through her hostile feelings she has for her ex-husband who had divorced her five years ago. With these insights and with the medications her psychiatrist prescribed, she eventually quit drinking, she began to feel substantially less depressed, and she started making more time for social activities with her friends and family. A few months after getting treatment from her doctor, she even started to date once again.
It was plain to see that Wendy had come a long way. Indeed, just about nine months after she stopped her rehab, Wendy had finally laid the harmful emotions of her ex-husband to rest and was beginning to feel better about herself and more spiritually “sound” and emotionally “together” than she had ever felt in her life.
