A Woman Gets a Divorce, Gets Depressed, Engages in Heavy and Abusive Drinking, and Receives Extraordinary Help at an Alcohol Treatment Clinic
Posted by Bereaved - 09/02/10 at 08:02 pmWendy was the mother of three children. Wendy had been feeling quite stressed out lately and started to “medicate” herself by having two or three martinis every night after she tucked her children into bed. After approximately eight weeks of this drinking routine, she at last realized that instead of helping her relax and cope with her problems, drinking made her feel less restful when she awakened in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel more tense throughout the day.
After thinking about her predicament for several weeks, Wendy decided to talk about her drinking situation with her best friend. Indeed, approximately fifteen minutes into their chat, Wendy’s friend, Carlee, told her that she knew about an extremely professional and knowledgeable psychiatrist at the local alcohol and drug rehabilitation facility. After talking to her friend, Wendy almost instantly got motivated to call the rehab center and schedule an appointment.
Six days later she eventually got to meet the psychiatrist her friend had been talking about. After their short introduction, Wendy told the psychiatrist that ever since she and her husband got divorced, she has been having a hard time psychologically, financially, and spiritually.
At times, she felt that she was 100% over the divorce. Recently, however, she has been feeling quite depressed about the fact that she and her former husband couldn’t “make it”. When asked by the physician how long her ex-husband and she dated before they got married, Wendy explained to the psychiatrist that she and her ex-husband went out for two years and then lived together for two years before they got married.
As Wendy was talking to the physician, she stressed the point that she frankly believed that they waited long enough to know one another well enough before they got married. After the children started to arrive, however, everything appeared to worsen. What is more, both Robert and she started to drink, and their careless and hazardous drinking negatively affected their finances, their love for one another, and their relationship.
When things went from bad to worse, Robert got a lawyer and filed for a divorce. Even though things were noticeably not going well and although she was frequently depressed, Wendy told the doctor that she didn’t want their marriage to come to an end. Once she was served her divorce papers, however, she knew that their marriage was over.
The psychiatrist explained to Wendy that the stress, anxiety, and tension that she has been going through concerning her careless and abusive drinking are some of the normal 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 critical because repeated drinking can get the individual into even more debilitating alcohol and alcoholism difficulties.
After seven or eight therapy sessions with her doctor, Wendy was slowly but surely able to understand that the real source of her stress and her depression was that she had not laid to rest her unpleasant feelings she has for her former husband who had divorced her four-and-a-half years ago. With these insights and with the medications her physician prescribed, she eventually quit drinking, she began to feel significantly less depressed, and she started making more time for social activities with her friends and family. A few months after getting treatment from her psychiatrist, she even began to date once again.
It was clear that Wendy had come a long way. In truth, just about nine months after she completed her counseling, Wendy had finally laid the depressing feelings of her former husband to rest and was beginning to feel more complete and more spiritually “sound” and emotionally “together” than she had ever felt in her life.
