Wendy was the mother of three children. Wendy had been feeling quite fretful lately and started to “medicate” herself by having three or four wine coolers every evening after she tucked her children into bed. After roughly ten months of this drinking routine, she at long last comprehended the fact that instead of helping her ”loosen up” and cope with her problems, drinking made her feel less tranquil when she awakened in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel even more anxious all through the day.

After thinking about her situation for two or three days, Wendy decided to talk about her drinking situation with her best friend. Indeed, approximately ten minutes into their chat, Wendy’s friend, Marie, told her that she knew about an extremely proficient and skillful doctor at the local drug and alcohol rehab center. After talking to her friend, Wendy almost instantly got encouraged to call the treatment facility and make an appointment.

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

At times, she felt that she was 100% over the divorce. Recently, conversely, she has been feeling quite depressed about the fact that she and her former husband couldn’t stay married and “make it”. When asked by the doctor how long her former husband and she went together before they got married, Wendy told the doctor that she and her former husband, Robert, went out for two-and-a-half years and then lived together for two-and-a-half years before they got married.

As Wendy was talking to the doctor, she highlighted the point that she really thought that Robert and she waited long enough to know one another well enough before they got married. After the kids started to arrive, conversely, everything appeared to get worse. Furthermore, both Robert and she began to drink, and their hazardous and irresponsible drinking adversely affected their relationship, their finances, and their love for one another.

When things went from bad to worse, Robert hired a lawyer and filed for a divorce. Even though things were apparently not going well and even though she was frequently depressed, Wendy told the physician that she did not want to put a stop to their marriage. Once she was served her divorce papers, however, she knew that their marriage was over.

The doctor explained to Wendy that the anxiety, stress, and tension that she has been suffering from concerning her abusive and irresponsible drinking are some of the common alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this situation is rehabilitation for one’s alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is very important because chronic drinking can get the drinker into even more severe alcohol and alcoholism difficulties.

After eight or nine treatment sessions with her physician, Wendy was little by little able to comprehend the fact that the real origin of her tension and her depression was that she had not resolved her hostile feelings she has for her ex-husband who had divorced her three-and-a-half years ago. With these insights and with the drugs her psychiatrist prescribed, she eventually stopped drinking, she began to feel significantly less depressed, and she started making time for social events with her friends and family. A few months after getting treatment from her physician, she even started to date once again.

It was apparent that Wendy had come a long way. In point of fact, just about nine months after she stopped her therapy, Wendy had finally laid the harmful feelings of Robert, her ex-husband, to rest and was starting to feel more self esteem and more spiritually “sound” and psychologically “together” than she had ever felt in her life.