Stanley started drinking excessively when he was in the eleventh grade. Fortunately for him, although he drank excessively and abusively when he was a teenager and a young adult, when he got beyond the age of twenty-five he almost always drank in moderation.

After he finished his education he eventually found employment at a local steel mill where he applied himself and worked his way up from stock person, to office assistant, to purchasing assistant, to purchasing agent. Unlike his other work positions, as the purchasing manager he often took existing vendors and potential vendors to lunch and to a variety of sporting events.

Although it was not an official part of his job description, meeting with potential vendors and existing vendors often involved circumstances in which alcohol was present. In truth, over the past fourteen months, Stanley had started to appreciably increase his work related and his social drinking. This has resulted in quite a quandary. That is to say, the more successful he became as a purchasing agent, the more heavily he began to drink.

His Increasing Bouts of Depression Also Made Him Question if He Was Becoming an Alcohol Dependent Individual

In fact, it didn’t take very long before Stanley’s careless and hazardous drinking started to negatively affect the money in his savings account, his work efficiency, his health, his relationships, and his mental health. After many weeks of excessive drinking, Stanley, if truth be told, started to get worried about his unhealthy and irresponsible drinking and wondered whether his alcohol related issues were alcoholism signs. Furthermore, his increasing feelings of depression also made him wonder whether he was becoming dependent on alcohol. In a word, Stanley obviously needed to learn more about the facts about alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency.

Stanley Needs Alcohol Detox and Alcohol Rehabilitation For His Alcohol Dependency and a Medical Evaluation Regarding His Depression

So Stanley used his reasoning skills, called his physician, and made an appointment for a complete physical examination. The next week when he saw his physician, Stanley unfortunately was told that he was addicted to alcohol. His healthcare practitioner informed Stanley that he needed to get alcohol detoxification and alcohol treatment for his alcohol addiction and that he also needed to get treatment for his depression. In short, Stanley needed treatment for his alcoholism and depression.

Fortunately After His Treatment For Depression and For Alcohol dependency, He Felt Like a Different Individual

His physician suggested to Stanley that he take a one-month leave of absence from work and get registered into a quality residential alcohol treatment facility where his depression could also be evaluated and treated. This is specifically what Stanley did. The good news is that after his treatment for alcohol dependency and for depression, he felt like a new individual. In actual fact, now that he was living an alcohol-free life he hardly ever got depressed and he now understood how to better manage his relationships, his health, his job, and his finances.

To no one’s amazement, the most challenging “test” Stanley ran into was at work. More specifically, he still took potential vendors and his existing vendors to lunch and to various sporting events, but after his alcohol rehabilitation he was able to stay away from drinking while entertaining his clients.

It can be emphasized that Stanley also learned that none of his existing vendors or potential vendors thought any less of him because of his alcohol-free lifestyle. Conversely, he found out that his existing vendors and potential vendors respected him for staying strong to his convictions.

After Stanley went through alcohol treatment, however, he discovered that he was an individual who for whatever reason, couldn’t drink in moderation. In point of fact he learned the hard way that if he abstained from drinking, all of the other significant parts of his life would be fortified. Every once-in-a-while, Stanley missed drinking, but the better finances, health, relationships, and the better work performance he experienced more than offset his love of drinking.

Wendy was the mother of four children. Wendy had been feeling quite stressed out lately and started to “medicate” herself by having three or four shots of burbon each night after she put her children to bed. After about six weeks of this drinking routine, she at last grasped the fact that instead of helping her ”loosen up” and ”handle” her issues, drinking made her feel less rested when she awakened. This, in turn, made her feel increasingly more tense all through the day.

After thinking about her situation for several weeks, Wendy made up her mind to talk about her drinking situation with her best friend. In truth, approximately ten minutes into their conversation, Wendy’s friend, Zaria, mentioned that she knew about a very highly qualified and professional physician at the local alcohol and drug treatment center. After talking to her friend, Wendy immediately got encouraged to call the treatment center and schedule an appointment.

Eleven days later she eventually got to meet the physician her friend had talked about. After their brief introduction, Wendy told the psychiatrist that ever since her former husband and she got divorced, she has been having a very hard time financially, spiritually, and emotionally.

At times, she felt that she was 100% over the divorce. Recently, however, she has been feeling extremely depressed about the fact that her former husband and she couldn’t “make it”. When asked by the doctor how long her ex-husband and she dated before they got married, Wendy told the physician that Robert, her former husband, and she dated for five-and-a-half years and then lived together for two-and-a-half years before they got married.

As Wendy was talking to the physician, she underlined the point that she honestly thought that her former husband and she waited long enough to know one another well enough before they got married. After the kids started to arrive, conversely, just about everything seemed to go downhill. To make mattes even worse, both she and Robert began to drink, and their abusive and excessive drinking adversely affected their finances, their relationship, and their love for one another.

When things became dysfunctional between them, Robert hired a divorce attorney and filed for a divorce. Although things were plainly not going well and even though she was often depressed, Wendy told the psychiatrist that she did not want to end their relationship. Once she was served her divorce papers, however, she knew that their relationship was over.

The physician explained to Wendy that the anxiety, tension, and stress that she has been suffering from regarding her hazardous and careless drinking are some of the better known alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this situation is rehabilitation for one’s alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is essential because long-term drinking can get the drinker into even more serious alcohol and alcoholism difficulties.

After five or six therapy sessions with her doctor, Wendy was gradually able to comprehend the fact that the real origin of her stress and her depression was that she had not laid to rest her acrimonious feelings she has for her ex-husband who had divorced her four years ago. With these insights and with the drugs her physician prescribed, she eventually stopped drinking, she started to feel significantly less depressed, and she began making more time for social activities with her family and friends. A few months after receiving counseling from her doctor, she even started to date once again.

It was clear that Wendy had come a long way. In truth, just about seven months after she stopped her counseling, Wendy had finally laid the depressing thoughts of Robert, her ex-husband, to rest and was beginning to feel more self esteem and more spiritually “sound” and emotionally “together” than she had ever felt in her life.