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Alcohol

Drinking Problem – Getting Restless and Stressed

Wendy was the mother of two children. Wendy had been feeling quite nervous lately and started to “medicate” herself by having a few screwdrivers every night after she put her children to bed. After just about six months of this drinking routine, she at last realized that instead of helping her ”lighten up” and ”handle” her problems, drinking made her feel more restless when she awakened in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel increasingly more stressed all through the day.

After thinking about her predicament for two or three weeks, Wendy decided to talk about her drinking situation with her best friend. In truth, just about twenty-five minutes into their chat, Wendy’s friend, Carina, mentioned that she knew about a very knowledgeable and professional doctor at the local alcohol and drug rehabilitation clinic. After talking to her friend, Wendy immediately got encouraged to call the treatment center and make an appointment.

Finding Reasons for Abusive Drinking Habit

Six days later she eventually got to meet the psychiatrist her best friend had talked about. After their short introduction, Wendy explained to the doctor that ever since she and her husband got divorced, she has been having a hard time financially, psychologically, and spiritually.

Difficulty in Letting Go

At times, she felt that she was 100% over the divorce. Recently, to the contrary, she has been feeling quite depressed about the fact that she and her former husband 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 she and her former husband, Robert, went out for five 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 honestly believed that she and her ex-husband waited long enough to know one another well enough before they got married. After the children started to arrive, to the contrary, just about everything seemed to worsen. What is more, both she and Robert started to drink, and their abusive and hazardous drinking adversely affected their finances, their love for one another, and their relationship.

When things became less than pleasant between them, Robert got a divorce lawyer and filed for a divorce. Even though things were noticeably not going well and even though she was frequently 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 relationship was over.

The doctor told Wendy that the tension, anxiety, and stress that she has been suffering from concerning her irresponsible and unhealthy drinking are some of the usual alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this state of affairs is rehab for one’s alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is very important because continuous drinking can get the drinker into even more debilitating alcohol and alcoholism problems.

Getting Back to Normal

After several therapy sessions with her psychiatrist, Wendy was little by little able to understand that the real basis of her stress and her depression was that she had not worked through her unpleasant feelings she has for her former husband who had divorced her five years ago. With these insights and with the drugs her physician prescribed, she eventually stopped drinking, she began to feel considerably less depressed, and she started making more time for social events with her friends and family. A few months after getting counseling from her physician, she even started to date once again.

It was clear that Wendy had come a long way. In fact, 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 more self respect and more spiritually “sound” and psychologically “together” than she had ever felt in her life.

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