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Wendy was the mother of two children. Wendy had been feeling quite nervous lately and started to “medicate” herself by having four or five martinis each night after she put her children to bed. After around eight months of this drinking routine, she eventually grasped the fact that rather than helping her ”take it easy” and ”manage” her problems, drinking made her feel less rested when she awakened in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel even more stressed throughout the day.

After thinking about her predicament for three or four days, Wendy decided to talk about her drinking problem with her best friend. In point of fact, about ten minutes into their discussion, Wendy’s friend, Maia, told her about a very highly qualified and knowledgeable physician at the local alcohol and drug treatment facility. After talking to her friend, Wendy immediately got motivated to call the rehabilitation facility and schedule an appointment.

Twelve days later she finally got to meet the psychiatrist her best friend had been talking about. After their short introduction, Wendy told the psychiatrist that ever since her former husband and she got divorced, she has been having an extremely difficult time financially, spiritually, and emotionally.

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

As Wendy was talking to the psychiatrist, she underlined the point that she honestly believed that they waited long enough to know one another well enough before they got married. After the children started to arrive, however, their relationship appeared to worsen. To make mattes even worse, both she and Robert began to drink, and their alcohol abuse adversely affected their love for one another, their finances, and their relationship.

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

The physician told Wendy that the stress, anxiety, and tension that she has been going through regarding her alcohol abuse are some of the better known alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this circumstance is rehab for one’s alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is very important because long-term drinking can get the drinker into even more severe alcohol and alcoholism difficulties.

After seven or eight counseling sessions with her doctor, Wendy was gradually able to realize that the real root of her anxiety and her depression was that she had not resolved her nasty feelings she has for her ex-husband who had divorced her three-and-a-half years ago. With these insights and with the meds her doctor prescribed, she eventually abstained from drinking, she started to feel considerably less depressed, and she began making time for social activities with her friends and family. A few months after getting therapy from her psychiatrist, she even began to date once again.

It was plain to see that Wendy had come a long way. In fact, just about five months after she terminated her therapy, Wendy had finally laid the harmful thoughts of her former husband to rest, she was beginning to feel more self worth, and she was learning how to feel more successful in her life.