Wendy was the mother of two children. Wendy had been feeling quite fretful lately and started to “medicate” herself by having three or four glasses of wine every evening after she put her children to bed. After approximately nine months of this drinking routine, she finally realized that instead of helping her ”take it easy” and ”manage” her problems, drinking made her feel less rested when she awakened. This, in turn, made her feel more stressed all through the day.

After thinking about her “condition” for a week or two, Wendy decided to discuss her problem drinking with her best friend. In fact, just about five minutes into their discussion, Wendy’s friend, Helen, mentioned that she knew about an extremely supportive and skillful doctor at the local drug and alcohol abuse treatment center. After talking to her friend, Wendy without delay got encouraged to call the rehabilitation center and schedule an appointment.

Ten days later she finally got to meet the doctor her best friend had been talking about. After their short introduction, Wendy told the physician that ever since she and her former husband got divorced, she has been having a difficult time psychologically, spiritually, and financially.

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 psychiatrist how long she and her ex-husband dated before they got married, Wendy explained to the physician that her ex-husband and she went out for three years and then lived together for a-year-and-a-half before they got married.

As Wendy was talking to the doctor, she underlined the point that she frankly believed that Robert and she waited long enough to know one another well enough before they got married. After the children started to arrive, however, their lives appeared to fall apart. Furthermore, both she and Robert started to drink, and their careless and irresponsible drinking negatively 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 clearly not going well and even though she was routinely depressed, Wendy told the physician that she didn’t want their relationship to come to an end. Once she received the divorce papers, however, she knew that their relationship was over.

The physician explained to Wendy that the anxiety, stress, and tension that she has been experiencing regarding her abusive and hazardous drinking are some of the better known alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this state of affairs is treatment for one’s alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is critical because long-term drinking can get the individual into even more dangerous alcohol and alcoholism problems.

After nine or ten treatment sessions with her physician, Wendy was gradually able to see that the real cause of her tension and her depression was that she had not resolved her resentful feelings she has for her former husband who had divorced her two-and-a-half years ago. With these insights and with the meds her psychiatrist prescribed, she eventually refrained from drinking, she started to feel considerably less depressed, and she began making time for social events with her friends and family. A few months after receiving treatment from her doctor, she even started to date once again.

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

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