Teresa was a forty-four-year-old real estate agent who realized that she had a problem with her drinking. As an illustration, within the past six months she has felt the need to have a drink or two before going to work, four months ago she failed a random hair alcohol test where she is employed, five weeks ago she got arrested for a DUI, and lastly, for almost five months she has begun to fail to remember what she says and does when she goes out drinking with her pals.
Similar to other people, Teresa’s experiences with alcohol began at a “snail’s pace” and continued at this pace for quite a long time due to the fact every so often she engaged in sporadic social drinking. In actual fact, for nearly two years, every time she went out with her buddies to drink, she made sure to drink moderately. Something about her pattern of drinking, nonetheless, seemed to radically change when her husband divorced her.
So She Can Overcome the Breakup of Her Husband With Less Distress, Teresa Made Up Her Mind That She Will Begin Hanging Around More Regularly With Some of Her Friends Who Love to Have Fun Drinking
Teresa got exceedingly depressed about the loss of her husband, and as a way to abstain from fixating on her disheartening feelings she decided to start hanging around more often with some of her friends who love to have fun drinking.
Quite forthrightly, Teresa thought that having fun nearly every day by drinking and partying with her friends would help her recover from the loss of her husband in a more trouble-free manner.
Time, Anger, and Stress Management Issues
Teresa also reasoned that drinking with her buddies would help her steer clear of her anger, time, and stress management difficulties.
Teresa’s Drinking Escalates Greatly the More Habitually She Goes to Sporting Events, Happy Hours, Family Get-Togethers, Dinner Dates, and Private Parties With Her Pals
It didn’t take long, however, before her drinking escalated significantly the more routinely she went to and drank at private parties, dinner dates, happy hours, sporting events, and family get-togethers with her buddies. In addition, the fact that her drinking friends were all younger than she was and therefore able to drink harder and more frequently was one of the reasons why she didn’t focus more on her increased drinking. Simply put, she was drinking and having tons of fun just like everyone else in her group of pals without giving too much consideration about the outcome of her excessive and irresponsible drinking.
Yet someplace in her brain she realized that she most probably required alcohol counseling but steered clear of the thought as much as humanly possible.
Teresa Gets a Physical, ”Comes Clean” About Her Irresponsible to Her Healthcare Practitioner, and Owns Up to the Truth About Her Depression
One morning during her annual physical exam, her healthcare practitioner asked her if she drank alcohol. Not wanting to tell falsehoods to her physician, Teresa acknowledged that she often drinks more than she should. As a matter of fact, she stated that she routinely drinks in a hazardous and abusive manner. Then Teresa told her physician about her dejection. More explicitly, she articulated that shattered relationships usually initiated a disheartening chain of events characterized by increased drinking which further led to more negative feelings that, in turn, resulted in even more drinking. And this is specifically what happened when she and her husband got divorced five years ago.
When her healthcare practitioner heard this, he informed Teresa that according to various alcoholism facts and statistics on alcoholism he was researching, alcoholism and depression many times happen in the same individual. He then told her that some of the alcohol statistics, facts, and research investigations he has been reading about also point out that individuals who drink in a hazardous manner and who also suffer from depression need to get treatment for both medical conditions.
Teresa’s Healthcare Professional Schedules an Appointment for a Psychological Appraisal and For an Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Addiction Evaluation
Teresa’s healthcare professional then said the following: “I am not trying to make a spur-of-the-moment diagnosis, but with your medical condition we may be confronting two separate problems. As a consequence, I think we probably should schedule an appointment for you to get an alcohol dependency and alcohol abuse assessment from my partner, Dr. Jefferson, who is an alcohol and drug addiction specialist. Whether your drinking problem is more associated with alcohol abuse or alcoholism is unclear, but I believe that further exploration is justifiable. Then I feel we need to make an appointment for you to get a psychological evaluation from another one of my partners, Dr. Castro, who is a psychologist. I want to get a better read on your dejection and see how much your drinking and depression are intertwined.” Teresa expressed her agreement with her healthcare practitioner’s strategy and thanked him for his help.
Teresa Addresses the Conflict and the Sexuality Problems When She Was Married
In all honesty, Teresa now felt a sense of personal self esteem and happiness because she finally became inspired to do something constructive about her drinking problems and her depression. Not only this, but Teresa also knew that after alcohol treatment she would be more able to confront the conflict and the sexuality difficulties when she was married. Now all she had to do was to try to cut back on her drinking and get ready for her appointments.
Tags: alcohol abuse, relationships, self improvement, sexuality