Wendy was the mother of five children. Wendy had been feeling quite stressed out lately and started to “medicate” herself by having two or three bottles of beer every night after she tucked her children into bed. After just about eleven months of this drinking routine, she finally grasped the fact that rather than helping her unwind and ”muddle through” her issues, drinking made her feel less rested when she awakened in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel even more tense all through the day.

After thinking about her circumstance for several days, Wendy decided to “open up” about her drinking situation with her best friend. In actual fact, roughly five minutes into their chat, Wendy’s friend, Miranda, mentioned that she knew about a very knowledgeable and professional physician at the local drug and alcohol abuse treatment clinic. After talking to her friend, Wendy almost instantly got encouraged to call the rehabilitation facility and make an appointment.

Twelve days later she finally got to meet the psychiatrist her friend had talked 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 an extremely difficult time spiritually, financially, and psychologically.

At times, she felt that she was totally over the divorce. Recently, however, she has been feeling quite depressed about the fact that her former husband and she couldn’t “make it”. When asked by the psychiatrist how long she and her former husband dated before they got married, Wendy explained to the psychiatrist that her ex-husband and she went out for two years and then lived together for three years before they got married.

As Wendy was talking to the physician, she underlined the point that she honestly thought that Robert and she waited long enough to know each other well enough before they got married. After the kids started to arrive, however, their lives appeared to worsen. Furthermore, both Robert and she began to drink, and their excessive and careless drinking negatively affected their relationship, their finances, and their love for one another.

When things became dysfunctional between them, Robert hired a divorce lawyer and filed for a divorce. Although things were apparently not going well and although she was frequently depressed, Wendy told the doctor that she did not want to put a stop to their relationship. Once she received the divorce papers, however, she knew that their marriage was over.

The psychiatrist told Wendy that the anxiety, stress, and tension that she has been experiencing regarding her abusive and careless drinking are some of the better known alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this situation is rehab for one’s alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is very important because continuous drinking can get the person into even more dangerous alcohol and alcoholism problems.

After a number of therapy sessions with her doctor, Wendy was slowly but surely able to see that the real basis of her stress and her depression was that she had not gotten to the bottom of her unpleasant feelings she has for her former husband who had divorced her three-and-a-half years ago. With these insights and with the meds her physician prescribed, she eventually quit drinking, she began to feel considerably less depressed, and she started making time for social activities with her family and friends. A few months after getting therapy from her psychiatrist, she even began to date once again.

It was clear that Wendy had come a long way. In fact, just about six months after she terminated her counseling, Wendy had finally laid the harmful emotions of Robert, her ex-husband, to rest and was beginning to feel more self respect and more spiritually “sound” and psychologically “together” than she had ever felt in her life.

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