Beth was the mother of two children. Beth had been feeling very fretful lately and started to "medicate" herself by drinking three or four shots of whiskey each evening after she tucked her children into bed. After approximately eleven months of this drinking routine, she eventually realized that rather than helping her "take it easy" and cope with her problems, drinking made her feel more restless when she awakened. This, consequently, made her feel even more stressed all through the day.
After thinking deeply about her circumstance for several days, Beth made up her mind to "open up" about her drinking problem with her closest friend. In fact, about twenty minutes into their chat, Beth's best friend Mily, mentioned that she knew about an extremely highly qualified and supportive psychiatrist at the local alcohol and drug rehabilitation clinic. After talking to her closest friend, Beth without much ado got encouraged to call the rehabilitation clinic and schedule an appointment.
Five days later she finally got to meet the physician her best friend had talked about. After their short introduction, Beth told the doctor that ever since her husband and she divorced one another, she has been having a hard time emotionally, financially, and spiritually.
As Beth was talking to the psychiatrist, she highlighted the point that she truthfully believed that she and her former husband dated long enough to know each other good enough before they got married. After the kids started to arrive, on the other hand, just about everything appeared to fall apart. To make matters worse, both Robert and she started to drink, and their irresponsible and unhealthy drinking negatively affected their love for one another, their relationship, and their finances.
The doctor explained to Beth that the alcohol poisoning symptoms she has been going through are due to her hazardous and excessive drinking. The physician also told Beth that her alcohol withdrawal symptoms are some of the more typical symptoms of alcoholism and that the most effective solution for this is alcohol rehabilitation.
After spending three months in inpatient alcohol treatment, Beth was little by little able to see that the real source of her anxiety and her depression was that she had not worked through her bitter feelings she has expressed for her former husband who had divorced her. In a word, Beth let these feelings trouble her to such an extent that she became an alcohol dependent individual.
With these insights and with the drugs her psychiatrist prescribed, she finally stopped drinking, she began to feel significantly less depressed, and she started scheduling time for social events with her family and friends. What is more, a few months after getting rehab from her psychiatrist, she even started to date once again.
It was clear that Beth had come a long way. In point of fact, just around seven months after she stopped her counseling, she had finally laid the negative emotions of her former 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. |
