A Woman Displays Signs Of Alcohol Dependency And Depression, Gets Inspired And Motivated About Making An Appointment To See Her Healthcare Professional About Her Hazardous And Irresponsible Drinking, And Establishes Solid Dating Relationships And Friendships

June 30th, 2010 · No Comments · lonely and desperate articles

Teresa was a forty-two-year-old real estate agent who knew that she had some drinking issues. For instance, within the past two months she has felt the need to have a few drinks before going to work, six weeks ago she tested positive for a hair alcohol test at work, three months ago she got arrested by the state highway patrol for “driving under the influence”, and finally, for approximately four months she has begun to forget what she says and does when she goes out drinking.

Similar to huge numbers of other people, Teresa’s alcohol involvement started out slowly and continued at this pace for quite a long time due to the fact sometimes she engaged in occasional social drinking. If truth be told, for approximately six months, every time she went out with her friends to drink, she made sure to drink moderately. Something about her drinking activities, nevertheless, seemed to radically change when her husband divorced her.

In Order To Come to Terms With the Breakup of Her Husband More Painlessly, Teresa Made Up Her Mind That She Will Start Going Out More Frequently With Some of Her Buddies Who Love to Whoop it Up and Drink

Teresa got extremely down in the dumps about the divorce from her husband, and as a way to abstain from her preoccupation with her disheartening feelings she determined that she would begin hanging around more regularly with some of her friends who love to have fun drinking.

Quite frankly, Teresa reasoned that having fun almost every day by getting “mellow” and drinking with her friends would help her overcome the loss of her husband in a less wearisome manner.

Teresa’s Drinking Increases Significantly the More Routinely She Goes to Happy Hours, Dinner Dates, Private Parties, Sporting Events, and Family Get-Togethers With Her Buddies

It didn’t take too long, nevertheless, before her drinking increased substantially the more habitually she went to and drank at family get-togethers, sporting events, happy hours, dinner dates, and private parties with her friends. What is more, the fact that her drinking buddies were all considerably younger than she was and therefore able to party more thoughtlessly was one of the reasons why she didn’t direct more of her attention to her increased drinking. In brief, she was drinking and having a lot of fun just like everybody else in her group of friends without much reflection about the negative results of her hazardous and irresponsible drinking.

Yet somewhere in her mind she realized that she probably needed alcohol counseling but kept away from the thought as much as possible.

Teresa Gets a Physical Examination, Admits Her Irresponsible and Hazardous Drinking to Her Healthcare Professional, and Owns Up to the Truth About Her Constant Negativity

One late afternoon during her yearly physical examination, her healthcare practitioner asked her if she drank alcohol. Not wanting to tell “stories” to her doctor, Teresa owned up to the fact that she often drinks more than she should. As a matter of fact, she articulated that she frequently drinks in an irresponsible manner. Then Teresa informed her healthcare practitioner about her general state of gloom. More explicitly, she mentioned that wrecked relationships usually elicited a depressing cycle of events characterized by increased drinking which further resulted in more negative feelings that, in turn, led to more drinking. And this is exactly what happened when her husband and she got divorced eleven months ago.

When her doctor heard this, he told Teresa that according to various alcoholism facts and statistics on alcoholism he was exploring, alcoholism and depression routinely occur in the same individual. He then told her that some of the alcohol statistics, facts, and research investigations he has been reading about also underline the fact that people who drink in an excessive and irresponsible manner and who also experience depression need to obtain treatment for both medical conditions.

Teresa’s Healthcare Professional Makes an Appointment for a Psychological Assessment and For an Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Assessment

Teresa’s healthcare practitioner then told her the following: “I am not trying to make a snap diagnosis, but with your medical situation we may be confronting two separate issues. Consequently, I think we probably should make an appointment for you to get an alcoholism and alcohol abuse evaluation from my partner, Dr. Weiss, who is an alcohol abuse and alcoholism specialist. Whether your drinking problem is more correlated with alcohol dependency or alcohol abuse is not clear at this time, but I think that further exploration is justifiable. Then I think we ought to make an appointment for you to get a psychological evaluation from another one of my partners, Dr. Siegel, who is a counseling psychologist. I want to get some more insights about your pessimism and see how much your depression and drinking are associated.” Teresa displayed her agreement with her doctor’s plan of attack and thanked him for his assistance and concern.

In truth, Teresa now experienced a sense of personal happiness and self esteem because she finally became inspired to do something positive about her excessive and abusive drinking and her depression. What is more, Teresa also knew that after alcohol rehabilitation she would be better able to develop solid friendships and dating relationships. Now all she had to do was to try to lessen her drinking and get ready for her appointments.

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