Wendy was the mother of five children. Wendy had been feeling quite anxious lately and started to “medicate” herself by having three or four wine coolers each night after she put her children to bed. After just about four weeks of this drinking routine, she at last comprehended the fact that instead of helping her ”lighten up” and cope with her difficulties, drinking made her feel less restful when she awakened. This, in turn, made her feel increasingly more tense throughout the day.

After thinking about her predicament for two or three days, Wendy decided to “open up” about her drinking situation with her best friend. In point of fact, just about twenty minutes into their chat, Wendy’s friend, Wendy, told her that she knew about an extremely proficient and highly qualified psychiatrist at the local drug and alcohol abuse treatment clinic. After talking to her friend, Wendy immediately got motivated to call the treatment facility and schedule an appointment.

Ten days later she finally got to meet the psychiatrist her friend had been talking about. After their short introduction, Wendy explained to the physician that ever since her former husband and she got divorced, she has been struggling psychologically, spiritually, and financially.

At times, she felt that the divorce was behind her. Recently, though, she has been feeling very depressed about the fact that she and her former husband couldn’t “make it”. When asked by the physician how long she and her former husband dated before they got married, Wendy told the doctor that she and her former husband, Robert, went out for two years and then lived together for two-and-a-half years before they got married.

As Wendy was talking to the physician, she stressed the point that she really thought that her ex-husband and she waited long enough to know each other well enough before they got married. After the kids started to arrive, however, just about everything seemed to get worse. Furthermore, both Robert and she began to drink, and their careless and abusive drinking negatively affected their finances, their love for one another, and their relationship.

When things became less than pleasant between them, Robert hired a lawyer and filed for a divorce. Even though things were visibly not going well and although she was frequently depressed, Wendy told the physician that she did not want to put an end to their marriage. Once she was served the divorce papers, however, she knew that their relationship was over.

The psychiatrist told Wendy that the anxiety, tension, and stress that she has been suffering from concerning her abusive and hazardous drinking are some of the typical 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 chronic drinking can get the person into even more dangerous alcohol and alcoholism difficulties.

After ten or eleven counseling sessions with her psychiatrist, Wendy was slowly but surely able to see that the real root of her tension and her depression was that she had not resolved her bitter feelings she has for her former husband who had divorced her four years ago. With these insights and with the medications her doctor prescribed, she eventually abstained from drinking, she started to feel considerably less depressed, and she started making more time for social events with her family and friends. A few months after receiving treatment from her physician, she even started to date once again.

It was plain to see that Wendy had come a long way. Indeed, just about eight months after she stopped her counseling, Wendy had finally laid the harmful feelings of Robert, her ex-husband, to rest and was starting to feel more self worth and more spiritually “sound” and psychologically “together” than she had ever felt in her life.

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