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Wendy was the mother of three children. Wendy had been feeling quite fretful lately and started to “medicate” herself by having two or three wine coolers every evening after she put her children to bed. After roughly six months of this drinking routine, she finally grasped the fact that rather than helping her unwind and cope with her issues, drinking made her feel less restful when she awakened. This, in turn, made her feel increasingly more anxious all through the day.

After thinking about her “condition” for two or three days, Wendy decided to discuss her drinking situation with her best friend. In actual fact, just about ten minutes into their discussion, Wendy’s friend, Alexis, told her about an extremely competent and helpful physician at the local alcohol and drug treatment facility. After talking to her friend, Wendy without delay got motivated to call the rehab center and schedule an appointment.

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

At times, she felt that she was one hundred percent over the divorce. Recently, though, she has been feeling extremely 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 told the doctor that Robert, her ex-husband, and she dated for four-and-a-half 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 she and her former husband waited long enough to know each other well enough before they got married. After the children started to arrive, to the contrary, their relationship seemed to worsen. To make mattes even worse, both she and Robert began to drink, and their careless and irresponsible 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 visibly not going well and even though she was frequently depressed, Wendy told the psychiatrist that she did not want to bring an end to their marriage. Once she was served her 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 irresponsible drinking are some of the more commonplace 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 very important because continuous drinking can get the drinker into even more severe alcohol and alcoholism problems.

After eleven or twelve therapy sessions with her doctor, Wendy was slowly but surely able to comprehend the fact that the real cause of her tension and her depression was that she had not worked through her angry feelings she has for her ex-husband who had divorced her a year-and-a-half ago. With these insights and with the drugs her physician prescribed, she eventually stopped drinking, she started to feel considerably less depressed, and she started making time for social events with her family and friends. A few months after receiving counseling 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 five months after she terminated her therapy, Wendy had finally laid the depressing emotions of her ex-husband to rest and was starting to feel better about herself and more spiritually “sound” and emotionally “together” than she had ever felt in her life.