Wendy was the mother of four children. Wendy had been feeling quite nervous lately and started to "medicate" herself by having a few cocktails each night after she tucked her children into bed. After around eleven weeks of this drinking routine, she eventually grasped the fact that rather than helping her "relax" and cope with her problems, drinking made her feel less rested when she got up in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel increasingly more stressed throughout the day.

After thinking about her circumstance for a few days, Wendy made up her mind to "open up" about her problem drinking with her best friend. Indeed, just about five minutes into their discussion, Wendy's friend, Ariana, mentioned that she knew about an extremely highly qualified and helpful doctor at the local drug and alcohol rehab clinic. After talking to her friend, Wendy immediately got encouraged to call the treatment center and schedule an appointment.

Twelve days later she eventually got to meet the doctor her friend had been talking about. After their short-and-to-the-point introduction, Wendy told the physician that ever since her ex-husband and she got divorced, she has been having an extremely difficult time spiritually, financially, and emotionally.

At times, she felt that she was totally over the divorce. Recently, to the contrary, she has been feeling quite depressed about the fact that she and her former husband couldn't "make it". When asked by the psychiatrist how long she and her former husband went together before they got married, Wendy told the physician that she and her ex-husband dated for three-and-a-half years and then lived together for three-and-a-half years before they got married.

As Wendy was talking to the doctor, she emphasized the point that she truthfully thought that she and her former husband waited long enough to know each other well enough before they got married. After the children started to arrive, however, their relationship seemed to go downhill. To make mattes even worse, both Robert and she started to drink, and their unhealthy and abusive drinking adversely affected their relationship, their finances, and their love for one another.

When things went from bad to worse, Robert got an attorney and filed for a divorce. Even though things were clearly not going well and even though she was regularly depressed, Wendy told the psychiatrist that she didn’t want to put an end to their relationship. Once she received her divorce papers, however, she knew that their marriage was over.

The physician explained to Wendy that the stress, anxiety, and tension that she has been experiencing concerning her abusive and hazardous drinking are some of the normal alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this circumstance is rehabilitation for one's alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is critical because chronic drinking can get the person into even more severe alcohol and alcoholism problems.

After a number of counseling sessions with her doctor, Wendy was gradually able to comprehend the fact that the real origin of her anxiety and her depression was that she had not gotten to the bottom of her bitter feelings she has for her ex-husband who had divorced her three years ago. With these insights and with the medications her psychiatrist prescribed, she eventually quit drinking, she started to feel considerably less depressed, and she began making more time for social activities with her friends and family. A few months after getting counseling from her psychiatrist, she even started to date once again.

Wendy Discovers How to Find Personal Happiness, Self Esteem, a Positive Attitude, and Success in Life

It was clear that Wendy had come a long way. Indeed, just about nine months after she terminated her therapy, Wendy had finally laid the depressing feelings of Robert, her former husband, to rest and was starting to feel more self worth and more spiritually "sound" and psychologically together than she had ever felt in her life. In addition, she was starting to find personal success, happiness, a positive attitude, and self esteem in life.

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