A Female Gets Divorced, Gets Depressed, Engages in Irresponsible and Excessive Drinking, and Gets Extraordinary Help at an Alcohol Rehabilitation Center
Wendy was the mother of four children. Wendy had been feeling quite tense lately and started to “medicate” herself by having several cocktails each evening after she tucked her children into bed. After approximately ten months of this drinking routine, she at last realized that instead of helping her unwind and ”manage” her problems, drinking made her feel more restless when she got up in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel even more anxious all through the day.
After thinking about her predicament for two or three weeks, Wendy made up her mind to “open up” about her problem drinking with her best friend. In fact, just about ten minutes into their discussion, Wendy’s friend, Meagan, told her about a very competent and helpful doctor at the local alcohol and drug treatment center. After talking to her friend, Wendy almost instantly got encouraged to call the rehab center and make an appointment.
Five days later she finally got to meet the psychiatrist her best friend had talked about. After their brief introduction, Wendy explained to the psychiatrist that ever since she and her husband got divorced, she has been having an extremely difficult time financially, spiritually, and emotionally.
At times, she felt that she was one hundred percent over the divorce. Recently, though, she has been feeling quite depressed about the fact that her former husband and she couldn’t “make it”. When asked by the physician how long her ex-husband and she went together before they got married, Wendy told the doctor that Robert, her ex-husband, and she went out for four-and-a-half years and then lived together for three years before they got married.
As Wendy was talking to the psychiatrist, she highlighted the point that she truthfully believed that her former husband and she waited long enough to know one another well enough before they got married. After the children started to arrive, however, their relationship seemed to get worse. Furthermore, both she and Robert started to drink, and their excessive and hazardous drinking adversely affected their love for one another, their finances, and their relationship.
When things became less than congenial between them, Robert got an attorney and filed for a divorce. Even though things were plainly not going well and even though she was habitually depressed, Wendy told the doctor that she did not want to put a stop to their marriage. Once she received the divorce papers, however, she knew that their relationship was over.
The doctor explained to Wendy that the tension, stress, and anxiety that she has been experiencing concerning her abusive and unhealthy drinking are some of the normal alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this circumstance is rehabilitation for one’s alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is essential because repeated drinking can get the person into even more dangerous alcohol and alcoholism problems.
After eight or nine therapy sessions with her physician, Wendy was slowly but surely able to understand that the real cause of her tension and her depression was that she had not resolved her bitter feelings she has for her ex-husband who had divorced her three-and-a-half years ago. With these insights and with the meds her psychiatrist prescribed, she eventually stopped drinking, she began to feel significantly less depressed, and she started making time for social activities with her family and friends. A few months after getting treatment from her psychiatrist, she even started to date once again.
It was clear that Wendy had come a long way. In point of fact, just about five months after she stopped her treatment, Wendy had finally laid the depressing feelings of her former husband to rest and was beginning to feel more self respect and more spiritually “sound” and emotionally “together” than she had ever felt in her life.
