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Teresa was a forty-four-year-old receptionist who knew that she had a problem with her drinking. As an illustration, within the past month she has experienced the need to have one or two drinks before going to work, two weeks ago she failed a random blood alcohol test at her place of employment, six weeks ago she got arrested by the state highway patrol for “driving under the influence”, and last but not least, for almost two months she has begun to fail to remember what she says and does when she goes out drinking with her friends.
Not unlike huge numbers of other people, Teresa’s involvement with alcohol started out little by little and remained at this pace for quite a long time due to the fact every once in a while she engaged in intermittent social drinking. In fact, for roughly eight months, every time she went out with her friends to drink, she made sure to drink moderately. Something about her drinking circumstances, nonetheless, seemed to drastically change when she divorced her husband.
So She Can Get Over the Breakup of Her Husband More Quickly, Teresa Came to a Decision That She Will Start Associating More Routinely With Some of Her Friends Who Love to Have Fun and Drink
Teresa got extremely down in the dumps about the breakup with her husband, and as a way to refrain from her preoccupation with her dismal feelings she came to a decision that she would begin hanging out more repeatedly with some of her buddies who love to whoop it up and drink.
Quite honestly, Teresa believed that having fun nearly every day by partying and drinking with her buddies would help her get beyond the loss of her husband with less sorrow.
Teresa’s Drinking Increases Significantly the More Frequently She Goes to Sporting Events, Private Parties, Family Get-Togethers, Dinner Dates, and Happy Hours With Her Pals
It didn’t take too long, nonetheless, before her drinking escalated to a significant degree the more often she went to and drank at happy hours, dinner dates, private parties, sporting events, and family get-togethers with her buddies. Moreover, the fact that her drinking friends were all quite a bit younger than she was and therefore able to party and drink harder and longer was one of the reasons that she didn’t focus more on her increased drinking. In a word, she was drinking and having a great time just like everybody else in her group of friends without spending a lot of time thinking about the negative consequences of her abusive and excessive drinking.
Yet somewhere in the recesses of her mind she knew that she most probably required alcohol rehabilitation but sidestepped the thought as much as she could.
Teresa Gets a Physical Exam, Owns up to the Truth About Her Hazardous and Excessive Drinking to Her Healthcare Practitioner, and Owns up to the Facts About Her General State of Gloom
One late afternoon during her annual physical exam, her physician asked her if she drank alcohol. Not wanting to tell “stories” to her doctor, Teresa owned up to the truth that she often drinks more than she should. As a matter of fact, she said that she frequently drinks in an excessive and abusive manner. Then Teresa informed her healthcare practitioner about her dejection. More to the point, she mentioned that wrecked relationships many times generated a discouraging chain of events typified by increased drinking which further resulted in more negative feelings that, in turn, led to even more drinking. And this is exactly what took place when she and her husband got divorced three months ago.
When her doctor heard this, he told Teresa that according to various alcoholism facts and statistics on alcoholism he was researching, alcoholism and depression frequently come about in the same individual. He then told her that some of the alcohol statistics, research investigations, and facts he has been looking into also stress the fact that individuals who drink in a hazardous and abusive manner and who also experience depression need to obtain treatment for both medical conditions.
Teresa’s Physician Makes an Appointment for a Psychological Appraisal and For an Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Evaluation
Teresa’s healthcare professional then stated the following: “I am not trying to make a snap analysis, but with your medical situation we may be dealing with two separate issues. As a result, I think we should make an appointment for you to get an alcohol abuse and alcoholism evaluation from my partner, Dr. Jackson, who is a substance abuse and alcohol abuse specialist. Whether your drinking circumstance is more related to alcohol abuse or alcohol dependency is unclear, but I believe that further assessment is reasonable. Then I feel we ought to make an appointment for you to get a psychological exam from another one of my partners, Dr. Frankel, who is a clinical psychologist. I want to get a better understanding about your melancholy and see how much your drinking and depression are interrelated.” Teresa expressed her endorsement of her doctor’s line of attack and thanked him for his time and concern. Now all she had to do was to try to lessen her drinking and get ready for her appointments.
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